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CLAYTONVILLE,
TEXASSwisher
County, Texas
Panhandle
FM 145
10 Miles E of Kress
Population:
0116 (1990 and 2000) |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Cotton farmer M. C. Clayton moved his ginning business here from Fannin County
in the early 1950s. He then opened a store for his employees and a café for the
farmers bringing their crops in. The Clayton Gin became a favorite meeting place
and the industrious (and evidently fair-dealing) Mr. Clayton essentially built
a community here. A Baptist church was organized in the early 1960s and in the
mid 1980s the population reached 116 – a figure that has remained through the
2000 census. | |
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