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QUINLAN,
TEXASHunt County,
North Central Texas
Highway 34 and 276
4 miles W of Lake Tawakoni
12 miles S of Greenville
42 miles W of Dallas
Population 1,360
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History
in a Pecan Shell
Originally named Roberts, for Governor O. M. Roberts, who sold land
to the Texas Central Railroad.
A Brief Timeline of Significant Events:
1886: The Texas Central Railroad becomes the Texas Midland Railroad.
1892: The Texas Midland, abandons the Roberts depot and establishes
Quinlan, 1½ miles north. The new town was named after George Austin
Quinlan, vice president of the Houston and Texas Central Railway.
1894: A post office was granted and the railroad is extended north
through Greenville
to Paris.
1900: Population
reaches 362
1910: Population reaches 537
1914: Population reaches 600
In 1933 Quinlan had 512 residents and thirty businesses; in 1952 the
population of 599 supported twenty-five businesses; in 1964 the community
had 621 persons. After the mid-1960s It had a population of 900 in
1976 and 1,002 in 1988 |
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