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MAVERICK,
TEXAS
Texas Ghost Town
Runnels County, Panhandle / West Texas
Highway 158
19 miles NW of Ballinger
7 miles SE of Bronte
33 miles NE of San
Angelo
Population: 31 (1990)
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The old schoolhouse
at Maverick. A cornerstone says 1925.
Photo courtesy Stephen Taylor, December 2004 |
History on
a Pinhead
The town was named for Samuel Augustus Maverick, local landowner and
famous Texan. A post office was granted in 1883 but moved a mile east
of the original site a year later.
In 1889 the community got its first school. Maverick reached its zenith
with three churches, two gas stations, a barber, and three stores.
No statistics are available through the Great Depression, but in 1940
the town had a population of 69. Forty years later there were only
31 people left and that figure is still in use.
See also "Eighteen
Ghost Towns of Runnels County" by Alton O'Neil Jr. |
A more recent
view of the schoolhouse
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, August 2006 |
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