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History in
a Pecan Shell
The town had been settled as early as the 1850s by lumbermen and farmers,
but it wasn’t until an oil discovery in 1918 that the town was given
its current name. Storeowner Newt Farris is credited with naming the
town after two neighbor ladies. Daisy Barrett and Etta White were
the honorees. A post office was granted in the early 1920s but a disastrous
fire in 1924 set the town back several years. The populace of Daisetta
maintained a friendly rivalry with neighboring Hull,
Texas, and both towns lived off of revenue from the Hull Oil Field.
From a high-water mark of 3,000 residents, Daisetta dropped to only
1,764 by 1950. By 1990 it was down to 969 has since increased back
over the 1,000 mark to 1,034 for the 2000 census. |
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