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LUEDERS,
TEXAS
Jones
County, Panhandle / North Central Texas
Highway
6, FM 1597, at the Shackelford/Jones county line
On the Clear Fork of the
Brazos River
North of Abilene
19 miles E of Anson
21 miles W of Albany
19 miles SE
of Stamford
Population
300 (2000)
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A former store in Lueders
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstonem, May 2001 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Frederick Lueders fought in the Texas revolution
and was awarded land here as a bonus.
Early settlement began in 1877
with settler W. J. Herrington, but the Webb and Hill Land and Cattle Company started
serious development in 1899.
The Texas Central Railroad arrived in 1900
and a post office was granted two years later.
Stone quarries provided
building material and the town established cotton gins early on.
The
population was a very respectable 700 by 1915 and it slowly declined to just over
400 in the 1980s. Lueders economy is based on livestock, horses, cotton and wheat. |
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Lueders building
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, May 2001 |
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