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History
in a Pecan Shell
There's not too much to report on this Cactus, which is about as far
away as it can be from Texas' other town named Cactus
up in Moore County. This town began as a shipping point on the IG
& N railroad in 1881. It had a post office in operation from 1884
until 1916 and although a school enrolled as many as 45 students in
1907, the overall population of the town proper never went over fifty
after 1892. By the end of the 1940s there was only 25 people in Cactus
and for the years 1968 through the early 1990s, there were no figures
available.
A gas station / grocery was reportedly open in the 1980s and the local
cememtery is shown on county maps. |
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