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History
in a Pecan ShellIn
1900, Steve Stevens, a conductor on the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf railroad
was honored by having the town named after him.
The town developed slowly
and prior to the first school being built in 1910, students were taught in the
railroad section house. George Brady was the school’s benefactor.
A general
store was soon built, and a grain elevator was constructed in 1920. It took another
nine years before a post office was granted. The Stevens school merged with Stratford
schools in 1940.
The population was estimated at a mere 40 residents throughout
the 1940s. The improvements on highway 54 were instrumental in depopulating the
town and in 1943 the post office was closed.
The combination store and
gas station closed a short time later, making Stevens a ghost town – with only
the grain elevator to mark the site. | 
1940
Sherman County map Showing Stevens (NE of Stratford)
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
1920s
Sherman County map
Courtesy Texas General Land Office | |
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