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Texas
Ghost Town
NICKEL, TEXAS
Gonzales County,
Central Texas South
12 miles NE of Gonzales
Ranch Road 532
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The
Nickel store
Photo courtesy Murray Montgomery |
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Nickel,
also sometimes spelled Nickle had a post office in 1886.
In 1890 the population was 25 persons with a gin, a gristmill and
mail from Gonzales three times a week. In 1896 Nickelodeans got
their mail daily.
The town only had 10 people during the Great Depression and the
last time they had population figures (1948), there were 25 people
listed on the census.
Rand McNally maps still show Nickel as a community and so do the
detailed Gonzales County maps. Today Nickle consists of the picturesque
old store and whatever population is there is dispersed.
© John Troesser
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The
Man from Nickel: Leslie Jones Askey by Murray Montgomery
Many years have come and gone since Leslie Jones Askey was born near
Old Moulton, in Gonzales County, Texas – over 97 of them, to be exact.......
He comes
back to Nickel every now and then just to see how things have changed.
Recalling his memories of the old store, Les is still upset about
someone chopping down a huge live oak tree that was standing out front.
That happened many years ago but he can’t understand why anyone would
take down such a beautiful tree. “People around here should have never
let them cut that tree down,” he said. “It wasn’t bothering anybody.”
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