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History
in a Pecan ShellSettlement
was reported as early as 1879, and three years later it was serving as a stage
and mail stop for the Abilene
to San Angelo
run. The Guion post office opened in 1884, closing sometime after 1930, when nearby
Ovalo took the responsibility. In the mid-1880s a small building was used as a
school and a Union church. The Lemon's Gap Baptist church, moved to Guion in 1883
and held its first service in the union church on September 12, 1886. Later the
Guion school consolidated with Lemon's Gap schools.
The town had no cemetery
of its own. the dead were interred in either Lemon's Gap, McBee, Cedar Gap, or
Bradshaw cemeteries. In the early 1890s Guion
only had twenty-five residents with a store, mill, gin and blacksmith shop.
When
the railroad came through in 1910 the original settlement became known as Old
Guion and the community was moved three miles to be near the railroad.
Although the town retained a population of eighteen from 1925 through 1990, nothing
remains of the community. All that remains at "old" Guion is the ruins of the
stagecoach station keeper's residence.
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1907
Taylor County postal map showing Guion (SW of Abilene)
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