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DERMOTT,
TEXAS
Some Ghost Towns have bigger populations
Population: 000005
Scurry
County, West Texas / Texas Panhandle
Highway 84
10 miles NW of Snyder
9 miles from Fluvanna (via FM
612)
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street scene
Photo Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp, 2001 |
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History
in a Pecan Shell
Pete McDermott donated the land for the townsite,
so it was named after his surname minus the Mc. A post office was granted in 1902.
Dermott moved accrording to the script of the old familiar story of
"live next to the railroad or die." First it was the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific
Railroad, but when the Santa Fe added cattle loading pens, the town moved a second
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of McDermott, the town's namesake
Photo Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp,
2001 |
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A short lived oil-boom from
1949 to 1951, helped a little, but the population declined until it reached the
present population of 5 persons.
© John Troesser
Our thanks to Charlene Beauchamp for providing the photos.
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Dermott
Texas ForumRemembering
Dermott
My grandfather, Henry Cordell Greenfield,
owned the hotel in the original site of Dermott, then moved it to the location
it was in, untill it was torn down. When I was growing up, Dermott had the hotel,
three gas stations, feed store, post office, school, blacksmith shop and quite
a few homes.
The stock pens were very active at cattle shipping time
and the hotel would be quite busy. My Grandmother had a dining room for the guests
as part of the hotel. At the original site my Grandfather would get people off
the RS&P and take them to the hotel for meals. My father was Harvey O. Greenfield.
- Johney (Sonny) Greenfield, September 19, 2002
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