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Texas Ghost
Town
BIG LUMP, TEXASSoutheastern
Milam County, Central Texas S
4 miles W of Milano (on US 77 and US 79)
Population: 0
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History
in a Pecan Shell
Big Lump was a lignite coal mining town on the International-Great
Northern Railroad.
Big Lump had a post office from 1912 until 1924.
The town's high water mark came around 1914 when nearly 400 Big Lumpites
called the place home.
With the demise of the lignite market in the 1920s, Big Lump dissolved.
No evidence of the community remains, and it stopped appearing on
county maps sometime ago.
© John Troesser |
Big Lump
Texas Forum
Big
Lump, Texas
Strange name for a community, but then knowing how it became named
like that, it isn't such a mystery. Back in the late 20's and early
30's, a strip coal mine was located just north of the U S Highway
79 and about a mile west of the "roadside park" and just west of
the current Sandy Creek church. The name "Big Lump" came about,
apparently named after the lumps of coal that was being mined. In
the immediate area around Big Lump, the Sandy Creek Church, cemetery
and Sandy Creek two room schoolhouse and an old "country store"
adjacent to a "open field" baseball playground where adults and
children alike gathered on Sunday afternoon to "visit" and fill
time between morning and evening church services, was the center
of the community.
My grandfather, Ira R. Touchstone owned a large house that sat about
half a mile due north of the "roadside park." ... more
- Dan Scott, Just South of San Antonio, June 21, 2006
I am writing
to you in regard to the Texas ghost town named Big Lump, Texas in
Milam County. Although Big Lump is no longer around, I have a flower
and vegetable farm named Big Lump in the area that was once known
as Big Lump. I also have a flower shop and nursery in the town of
Rockdale called the Big Lump Flower Shop. Anyone who would like
to stop by and talk to me about Big Lump or tour my farm can certainly
do so by calling me at my shop at 512 446 5867. We are trying to
keep the name of Big Lump alive. - Thanks, Jim Gober, January
16, 2005
Anyone wishing to share history or images of Big Lump, Texas, please
contact
us.
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