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Texas Ghost
Town
MECCA, TEXAS Madison County,
Central Texas S
FM 978
3 miles E of Highway 36
10 miles W of Madisonville
Population
006 (1990)
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History
in a Pecan Shell
One of the oldest settlements in Madison County, Mecca was originally
in what was Grimes County.
A post office was opened in 1894 and closed in 1907 when mail was
routed from Normangee.
In 1896 the town had a population of about thirty, slowly growing
to 50 by 1933.
In 1935 the three-room schoolhouse had three teachers and thirty-seven
white pupils. Most black pupils in district went to Chapel Hill School,
three miles distant.
Mecca's school merged with the North Zulch ISD in the 1940s. The town
used cemeteries in neighboring Tenmile and Rock Prairie for interments
and while the population remained at fifty into the late 40s, the
town reported only six residents for the 1990 census. |
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