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The old schoolhouse
at Maverick.
A cornerstone says 1925.
Photo
courtesy Stephen Taylor, December 2004 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
The
town was named for Samuel Augustus Maverick, local landowner and famous
Texan. A post office was granted in 1883 but moved a mile east of
the original site a year later.
In 1889 the community got its first school. Maverick reached its zenith
with three churches, two gas stations, a barber, and three stores.
No statistics are available through the Great Depression, but in 1940
the town had a population of 69. Forty years later there were only
31 people left and that figure is still in use. |
A more recent
view of the schoolhouse
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2006 |
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