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Cornfield
in Pancake
Photo courtesy M.M. Harris, 2007 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Mail delivery seemed to be a problem in Pancake - in fact most of
what is written about the town in the Handbook of Texas involves
postal infrastructure.
The name comes not from a flat-topped mountain or the terrain, but
the first postmaster who had the unusual name of John R. Pancake.
It opened in 1884 and closed in 1886.
Mail was routed through Jonesboro
until the community tried again (1894) to have their own post office.
The new post office was designated Bush, Texas.
The town had a population of 200 Pancakers or Bushes in the mid-1890s.
The name reverted to Pancake in 1901 and by 1908 the post office had
closed again - mail going back to Jonesboro.
The population of Pancake dwindled and the town had only twenty-five
residents from the 1930s through the 1960s when statistics stopped.
Pancake is shown on detailed county maps, but the town never had a
cemetery of its own. Nearby Jonesboro
or Turnersville provided ground for Pancake burials.
See Desperately Seeking Permission:
A Coryell County Adventure by M.M. Harris
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