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History in
a Pecan Shell
The region was
settled in the late 1860s. A. J. Cross is credited with being the
first settler and the Handbook of Texas lists Zeke Hall and Jim Beach
as two other early pioneers. The town's namesake was John Sadler who
donated a right-of-way to the Katy Railroad in the late 1870s. With
a railroad connection and a depot, the area now had the nucleus to
form a proper town. Sadler was granted a post office in 1892.
Population statistics showed about 400 residents from the 1920s into
the mid-30s. The Great Depression, WWII
and post war highway improvements lured residents away and by the
mid 1950s the population was just short of 200. The figures on the
2006 state map show an estimated population of 404 - about the same
as the mid-1920s. |
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