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GALLOWAY, TEXAS
AKA Gallaway

Panola County, East Texas

FM 31
17 miles SE of Carthage the county seat
2 miles from the Louisiana state line
Population: 71 (2000, 1990)

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Galloway Tx School, WPA project - Ivy covered Walls

Ivy covered Galloway School
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

History in a Pecan Shell

Settled shortly after the Civil War, it may have been formed by refugees from other Southern states. The community opened a school in the 1880s but by the late 1890s it only had 30 pupils.

Galloway managed to survive the Great Depression with a store of its own (no population figures available) but when its school (rebuilt as a WPA project) was merged with those in Carthage after WWII, any hopes of growth were dashed.

It has since become a dispersed rural community. The population was given as 71 for the 2000 census.

Galloway Tx Road Sign

Galloway Road Sign
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

Galloway Tx School, WPA project

Galloway School - WPA project
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

Galloway Tx School, WPA project

Work Projects Administration 1938-1940 plaque
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

Galloway Tx WPA project School interior

Galloway School Interior
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010
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Flatwood Vol Fire Dept
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