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Crownover
Chapel, the old rock church, in Fairland
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, August 2005 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
In the early 1850s a group of settlers arrived and named the place
"fair land." In 1859 land was donated for a church and school. Work
on a stone church was delayed by the Civil War and completed in 1870.
After the rock church was finished a wooden room for a school was
added.
The first post office opened in 1874 under the name Backbone Valley.
Later, in 1890 the Fairland post office opened. In 1951, mail was
routed through Marble Falls and
the Fairland office closed.
There was a population of 200 in the mid-20s and after the Great Depression
there were barely 50 people left. That estimate remained through the
60s and today there are no statistics. The Fairland and Tobey schools
merged and consolidated with Marble
Falls sometime after 1943.
The old rock church building remains in use as does the town's cemetery. |
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