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TRUSCOTT,
TEXASKnox
County, Panhandle / North Central Texas
FM 1756
100 miles N of Abilene
Population
187 (estimate 1990)
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| | A
wall in downtown Truscott
Photo courtesy of Tom Walker |
| | The
old bank at Truscott
2001 photo courtesy of Eric Whetstone |
History
according to the Handbook of Texas
Truscott had (in 1880) once been
named China Lake for a grove of Chinaberry trees growing along a small lake.
With the organization of the county the name was changed to honor pioneer
J. Truscott, an early settler.
Truscott was the first teacher of the
Truscott school, established in 1888. The one-room schoolhouse served until 1907,
when it burned.
That same year the town moved a mile to be on the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient Railway.
The Truscott school burned in1945, and
even after a new school was built, enrollment decreased to the point where it
closed.
Truscott was an aberration during the Great Depression when the
population doubled from 250 in 1930 to 500 in1940.
By1980 Truscott was
on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line and reported 187 residents. |
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