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PLACID,
TEXAS
McCulloch County,
Texas
Hill Country
FM 1028 and FM 2315
16 Miles NE of Brady
Not on the state map
Population: 32 (1990)
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History on
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Who was J. Gault?
We may never know for sure, but he and his wife are credited with
establishing Placid, Texas in the first days of the 1900s. The Fort
Worth and Rio Grande Railroad arrived in 1903 and landowner Gault
donated land for school, church and cemetery.
A post office was opened in 1908 and by 1914 the population reached
100. Placid schools merged with those in neighboring Rochelle
in 1939. At the end of WWII
the 110 residents of Placid joined the rural to urban migration and
by 1949 there were only 50 people left. It has slowly declined to
the 32 residents reported in 1990. |
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