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"Eyes
on Ivan" - Ivan, Texas, 1920s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Ivan is a gateway
to the Possum Kingdom State Recreation Area. The Handbook of
Texas is short on facts, but they allow that J. O. Brockman
named the town for his son and that the Ivan post office opened
at the close of the 19th Century and shut its doors in 1953.
The population high-water mark was sixty-one Ivanites in 1920 but
it decreased to a mere 15 from the 1970s to the 90s. Today the only
visible business is a bar at the juncture of the above roads.
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The only building in Ivan
TE photo Feb. 2004 |
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