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History in
a Pecan Shell
The community came
into being in the 1890s with the arrival of the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio Railroad. A Richmond
banker by the name of Cecil A. Beasley was given naming rights. He
first named it Dyer, after the surname of his fiancé Isabel Dyer,
but the name had been in use by another town. Cecil married Isabel
and the town was officially named Beasley with the opening of a post
office in 1898. |
Full-bore
promotion began in 1910 when a Kansas City company advertised for
settlers. The population reached 325 by 1914.
Beasley soon had Baptist and Lutheran churches along with a hotel,
lumberyard and three general stores. The population remained at 350
through WWII,
declining to 300 by the end of the 1940s. By 1960 it had reached bottom
at a mere 175 people but started growing slowly, reaching nearly 500
for 1990 and peaking at 590 residents for the 2000 census. |
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