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memento:
Hoard, TX
HOARD, TEXAS. Hoard, also known as Democrat, is at the intersection of Farm Road 1801 and U.S. Highway 80-which parallels the Missouri Pacific line-six miles east of Mineola in southern Wood County. Sometime before 1870 a one-room box building known as the Democrat school reportedly existed in what was to become the Hoard community. The community was probably named after the owner of nearby Hoard's Mill. After the railway came through in 1873, this mill was operating near the line, but it apparently went out of business before Hoard was able to convince the railway to build a switch past it. By around 1910 the community had a rural commissary and a population of 150. The Democrat school reported 112 students by 1932, and in the mid-1930s the community had a number of dwellings, a church, and three businesses, including a factory and a sawmill. Hoard's population was reported as twenty-five by 1945, but by 1949 no further population figures were available. By 1960 nearby U.S. Highway 80 had grown to four lanes, and only a few scattered dwellings remained at Hoard. During the 1980s the community had a number of new dwellings and three businesses.
jpwagoneer1964:
Dodge,Tx
The town had its first settlers around 1825. Martin Parmer, who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and was the namesake for Palmer County was an original landowner. In 1872 Martin’s son William granted right-of-way to the Houston and Great Northern Railroad.
In that year the railroad built a depot, naming it Dodge Station.
Phelps-Dodge was the company that physically built the railroad. The company also provided names for the twin towns of Phelps and Dodge.When the post office was established in 1881 Dodge Station became Dodge.
By the mid-1890s the population was 150; by 1914 it was 500.
Dodge experienced two devastating fires. One in 1924 and one the following year. The town never replaced the destroyed buildings.
Dodge served as a junction for the Trinity Valley Southern and IGN railroads, for 35 years – beginning in 1901. The town was still holding out as late as 1936 when the Great Depression took its toll on the lumber industry and sawmills closed all across East Texas.
Dodge has retained a population of 150 from 1943 until the present.
MaineWriter:
Edna Hill, TX
Settled in the 1850s, nothing much happened in Edna Hill for the first 50 years. According to the Handbook of Texas a school was in operation in 1900, so at least the town's children were educated while nothing continued to happen. No disasters occurred and no crimes were committed which must have pleased the residents. Even into the 1940s - nothing happened with such regularity that it became the norm.
WWII came and went - while Edna Hill still went about its quiet existence. The school merged with Dublin's school district in the late 40s and there was worry that things would now start happening now that something had finally happened.
The worry was proved unjustified as Edna Hill slipped back into the quiet routine for which the town has now become famous.
Leslie
Fran:
Legal, AB
Legal is a town in central Alberta located north of Edmonton on Highway 651. It was founded as a Francophone settlement and is now famous for its French-themed murals.
Legal was also where hockey star Kyle Chipchura went to school and played minor hockey.
Population: 1,058 (2005)
jpwagoneer1964:
Lancaster, Tx
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