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BROADWAY,
TEXASShown
on the TxDoT county map as Broadway Junction
Lamar County, North Central Texas
Farm Road 1184 and Hwy 90
7 miles S of Paris
Population:
25 (1990) Book
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History
in a Pecan Shell
Texas’ other Broadway was way out in Crosby County.
Both were named for the broad expanse of the landscape, but this one got the post
office.
It was founded in 1885, when F. E. Hutchins opened a store. When
the post office was applied for Hutchins suggested Broadway. Granted by the postal
authorities, it opened in 1890.
Population figures remained at the same
exact number (127) from 1904 through the mid-1940s. The 1936 county highway map
also identified a school at the site.
After World War II the exodus from
rural Texas to urban Texas was in full swing and the Broadway school closed. By
1957 students were in the Delmar ISD. attending classes within the Delmar Independent
School District.
By 1970 the population had decreased to twenty-five,
the same as the 1990 census.
The McDonald cemetery is shown just outside
of what was Broadway.
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