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BRICE,
TEXASHall County,
Texas Panhandle
Highway 70 and 256
70 miles SE of Amarillo
Population: 26 estimate (2000) 37 (1990) |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Named for C. R. Brice, a former county attorney.
The town was platted
on property belonging George Dickson (who donated church and school land) and
a man named Horn who opened the town's first store.
The post office was
first opened in Briscoe County in 1899 and was moved to Brice in 1903. It finally
closed in 1954.
Brice, which was once divided into North and South Brice
reached it's peak sometime before the Great Depression. The larger part (North
Brice) was two miles from South Brice.
It had at one time a brick schoolhouse
for eleven grades with a faculty of five but a school consolidation in 1952 closed
the one at Brice. | |
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