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    PRITCHETT, TEXAS

    Upshur County, East Texas
    Highway 155
    About 6 Miles S of Gilmer

    About 9 Miles NW of Gladewater
    Population: 00125 (2000)

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    History in a Pecan Shell

    Once known as Lockhart’s Switch (a railroad designation) the community that formed here was granted a post office in 1893. They wanted to honor early settler John Prichard by naming the post office for him, but there was a slip somewhere between the application and the official listing and the spelling came out as Pritchett.

    The community of Pleasant Hill provided most of Pritchett’s early population and the town peaked in the 1910s with a population of 600 and all essential businesses.

    A decline started in the 1920s and in the middle of the Great Depression it was down to less than 250 residents.

    Increased mobility after WWII and then school consolidation reduced the community to just two chuches and just scattered residences. The 1990 census counted 125 people and the same figure was used for 2000.

    TX - Pritchett Missionary Baptist Church
    Pritchett Missionary Baptist Church
    Photo courtesy Gerald Massey, July 2011
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    TX - Pritchett Normal Institute historical marker

    Pritchett Normal Institute historical marker
    Photo courtesy Gerald Massey, July 2011

    Enterin Pritchett
    Photo courtesy Gerald Massey, July 2011

    Upshur County TX 1907 Postal Map

    Upshur County TX 1907 Postal Map showing Pritchett, SW of Gilmer
    (Below "PS" in "UPSHUR")

    Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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