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Texas Ghost
Town
BLUE GAP, TEXAS
Runnels County,
Panhandle / West Texas |
Blue
Gap was near the Coleman county line twenty-five miles northeast of
Ballinger in extreme
northeastern Runnels County.
A log post office, established there in February 1878 with James K.
Paulk as postmaster, was the first in the county; it was, in fact,
founded before the county was organized in 1880. The townsite was
named for a pass through nearby Table Mountain. For a brief period
Blue Gap was a stop on the Round Rock-Buffalo Gap stage line. The
community was short-lived, however, and its post office was discontinued
in March 1881. The old post office building was restored in the 1960s,
and a Texas Historical Commission marker was dedicated at the site
in 1966.
From "Eighteen
Ghost Towns of Runnels County" by Alton O'Neil Jr. |
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