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History in
a Pecan Shell
Settlement began
here in the late 1880s and it can’t be said with certainty that it
was named for local cedar trees. Some say it was named after the town
of the same name in Washington
County.
A school was built in 1898 and there were enough children in the area
to declare it a district by 1900, the same year a Baptist church was
built.
In 1916 a post office opened two miles NW of Cedar Hill under the
name of Alcino. The post
office was in the store of John Dillard. The store was successful
enough to support John, so a relative named Dave decided to open Cedar
Hill's first store.
Although no population figures are available, it appears the 1930s
and 1940s were Cedar Hill’s peak years. Besides a brick school, the
community also had two churches as well as an icehouse, café and the
aforementioned store.
The local economy allowed for the construction of a grain elevator
in the early 1960s.
The Cedar Hill school consolidated with Floydada
schools in 1950 and by the mid 1980s the population had decreased
to only ten. A recent population explosion has more than tripled that
number – bringing it to 36 for the 2000 census. |
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Floyd
County 1940s map showing Alcino,
which is 2 miles NW of Cedar Hill
From Texas state map #4335
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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