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History
in a Pecan ShellNamed
after the colorful and mysterious surveyor from Bonham,
the town developed around 1888 when the railrroad arrived and the post office
opened.
Mr. Bean donated 50 acres for a townsite - including the railroad
right-of-way. The railroad drew off of the population of nearby White Mound and
soon Tom Bean (the town) was thriving. The population reached 299 in 1900 and
by the mid-20s there were 367 Beanites, Beansonians or Beanilains. After the 1950s
the population grew slowly. It was 570 by the mid-1970s and it seems to have peaked
in the late 80s with 926 residents.
See Tom
Bean - The Man | |
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