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History
in a Pecan ShellW.
J. Newlin is the town’s namesake. Newlin supposedly camped here with Charles
Goodnight on a buffalo
hunt in the late 1870s. Newlin was also instrumental in platting the town in the
late 1880s when the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway was crossing Hall County.
Andrew
M. Embry, who owned the townsite, constructed a hotel and lumberyard, anticipating
immediate growth. A depot soon appeared, followed by a school. The railroad agent
W. H. Meador opened the town’s first store which gave space to the town’s post
office (granted in early 1890).
The town reached its zenith in the late
1920s with a population of 457. Newlin lost its bank in the Great Depression and
after WWII the Newlin school
merged with Estelline’s
schools.
The post office closed its doors in the late 1960s and the abandoned
bank and a store were the only “downtown” structures in the 1980s. From the mid
1980s through 2000 the number of residents has been given as 31. |
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1907
Hall County postal map showing Newlin
(SE of Memphis.
Above "L" in "HALL")
Courtesy Texas General Land
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