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CARADAN,
TEXASMills County, Texas Hill
Country
9 miles NE of Goldthwaite
Just down the road from Mount Olive
Population 20 (2000)
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Caradan
Cemetery Entrance
Photo courtesy Jim and Lou Kinsey |
History in a Pecan Shell
Named after early settlers Samuel Losson CARAway and DAN Bush, the
community dates from the 1880s.* The name was submitted for a post
office which was granted in 1889 when only fifteeen people lived here.
By 1930 the population had (nearly) doubled to twenty-nine. It reached
its high-water mark in 1950 with seventy-five Caradanians but twenty
years later the town had only eighteen people left.
The post office closed its doors in the mid-1970s.
The cemetery is all that is left of Caradan.
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Caradan
Cemetery
Photo courtesy Jim and Lou Kinsey |
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Caradan
Cemetery historical marker
Photo courtesy Jim and Lou Kinsey |
The church
built by Knox E. Reed in 1932
Photo courtesy Jimmy Reed |
Caradan
Texas Forum
My family, at one
time long ago, lived in Caradan and some of my siblings attended school
there (I did not). This was a little before my time, probably in the
mid to late thirties. I do not know much about Caradan but am seeking
information. I am sending the photo [above] of a church building that
my dad built there in 1932. I understand that this building was, at
some time later on, sold to a farmer and was moved to a location several
miles north of Caradan and that was used for storage of feed for cattle.
Do you have any information on this or tell me where I may go to find
info. My dad's name was Knox E. Reed and my mother's name was Lillie
Belle. - Jimmy Reed, Pflugerville, Texas, March 22, 2007
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