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Texas Ghost
Town
TRUITT, TEXAS
Runnels County,
Panhandle / West Texas
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Truitt
was located ten miles east of Winters off Highway 1770.
The town was named for the baby son of one the merchants, Truitt Billups.
A post office was acquired March 21, 1904, with the appointment of
John L. Golden. John Golden’s store was on the east side of the one
street running north and south, and the Billups General Mercantile
was on the west. The mail was delivered from Winters by John Brown
the son of the justice of the peace. The post office was closed in
1912. Doctors Ash and Pool had their offices in the Branham drugstore.
A Dr. Watson came in 1909 but moved to Crews two years later. A Telephone
system was installed in 1904, with the office in the Billups store.
There was also a hardware store and blacksmith shop on the east side
of the street.
Arthur Nichols started a gin and store in 1906. School was in a one
room building, but with two teachers. It was consolidated with the
Meadows School in 1915. Elmer Burke the Baptist minister held services
at the schoolhouse. At one time there were eleven dwellings in Truitt.
When the railroad was laid through Winters instead of Truitt, the
town was doomed. All the buildings were moved away the next few years
and there is nothing to show where Truitt was located except the cemetery.
From "Eighteen
Ghost Towns of Runnels County" by Alton O'Neil Jr. |
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