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DULIN,
TEXASBrown
County, Texas Panhandle
Near Highway 377 near FM 586
2 Miles SE of Brookesmith
2 Miles SE of Brownwood
Population:
Unknown
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Dulin
Texas High School circa 1925
"My mother, Helen Virginia Dixon is second
from left in middle row. My aunt Lovena Drybread is located fourth from left on
back row." - Betty Lou Drybread Moore |
History in a Pecan
Shell
The community was named after Thomas S. Dulin, a teacher who
left to serve in the Civil War and returned to teach after the war. He is said
to have married another teacher.
The couple bought a huge tract of land
(some sources say 20 sections and made their home aroound Clear Creek. Dulin was
granted apost office in 1896 although it closed in 1903. Accounts are sketchy
but the school pictured above is thought to have merged with schools in Brookesmith.
The only population estimate available is from the 1940s when 50 residents lived
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