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History
in a Pecan Shell
Information on Simpsonville is less than abundant.
We were unable to find an origin for the town's name. It did start life about
the year 1910 on the Buckeye and Collegeport Railroad.
The town got
a post office the same year, although it closed in 1917. The population at the
time was only 10 people and Palacios
acquired the mail route through Simpsonville.
By the 30s, the county
had moved the road, the railroad
didn't exist and the cotton gin was a thing of the past. What few students were
produced by a population of 40 were absorbed by the Palacios
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possible that the structure was the former cotton gin of 1928.
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