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Texas Ghost
Town
MARIE, TEXAS
Runnels County,
Panhandle / West Texas
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Marie,
in west central Runnels County on a county road just south of Farm
Road 384,
was named for the wife of Walter (Buck) Gentry, a local landowner,
when a post office was established there in 1906. Walter C. Bass was
the storekeeper and first postmaster. A gin was built in 1904 and
operated until 1916. A school started at Marie in 1901. A Woodman
Hall was built above the School. The building was also used by the
churches. A Baptist Church was organized in 1903 and later a Methodist
church was started when the Baptist dissolved in 1916. In 1916 a new
two-teacher school was built; it was moved to Bronte in 1938. The
post office was discontinued June 14, 1941. Around 1940 Marie had
a population of twenty and one store.
The rock store building and several foundations are still standing.
In the last few years the store has been redone and is being lived
in. Also a new home has been built on the old townsite.
From "Eighteen
Ghost Towns of Runnels County" by Alton O'Neil Jr. |
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