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Texas Ghost
Town
CUSTER CITY, TEXAS
Cooke County, North
Central Texas
Ranch Road 2896
10 miles NE of Gainesville
Population:
0
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Detail
from the famous lithograph |
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Jim Jones is credited with founding Custer City in 1876 - the nation's
Centennial Year. For this reason the town had been named Centennial
City. It was later renamed after George A. Custer, the boy-general
of the Civil War and the man who undercounted the Indian population
at Little Big Horn, Montana. Custer's defeat occurred in 1876 and
the townspeople renamed their town in his memory.
A post office opperated between 1877 and 1902.
Custer City had
a population of 300 in 1882, but ten years later the population
had shrunk to only 25 persons. The site of Custer City stopped appearing
on highway maps sometime after the 1940 census map.
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Postal
route map circa 1906, showing Custer City
Courtesy Texas
General Land Office |
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