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History in a Pinecone
The
railroad arrived here in 1885 and a community grew around the tracks. Named after
a family of early settlers, Paxton was granted a post office in 1892.
The
town became a shipping point for cotton and
lumber and by 1914 the population had reached 100, climbing to three times that
amount by 1929.
A depletion of timber, the Great Depression and WWII
reduced the number of people to a third of their peak and by the late 1940s they
were back to their 1914 figure of 100.
It has slowly risen to 150 in the
late 1980s and for the 2000 census, the figure recorded was 161.
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