GAUSE, TEXAS

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History in a Pecan Shell

At last! A town named after the pioneering settler and not a railroad official, brakeman or track-walker. The man was William J. Gause and the year was 1872. There was a strong railroad connection, however, for Mr. Gause granted a right-of-way to the Missouri Pacific Railroad and that was responsible for the town's early and almost immediate prosperity.

Gause was a shipping point for Milam County farmers who shipped corn, cotton and cottonseed oil (ginned and processed right there in Gause). But by the 1920's, the town started into a decline as did many Texas towns.

The automobile became affordable and the problem of "keeping them down on the farm" was indeed a reality after World War I. Being only 16 miles from the county seat, made it easy for Gausians to spend their income in Cameron.

At it's population high-water mark, there were 1,000 people living in Gause, although it's hard to imagine that now. The population reached its lowest point with just over 200 people in the 1970s. The population is experiencing current growth (est. 400) as many people are escaping the larger towns that their grandparents found so magnetic.

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