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History
in a Pecan ShellOnce
part of the Stephen F. Austin Colony, the community didn’t develop until the 1890s
when Fort Bend County landowner Freeman Irby Booth arrived, and opened a store.
Booth also opened a lumberyard, cotton gin and syrup mill.
A post office
opened in 1894 when the population was estimated at 150. It doubled by 1914 and
the town received telephone service as well as a bank.
From 1925 through
the Great Depression and WWII.
Booth’s population remained steady at 100 residents. By the late 1940s it had
fallen to a mere 40 residents and has remained under 100. The 1990 census reported
60 citizens. | |
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