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STREETER,
TEXASMason County,
Texas Hill Country
Big and Little Bluff creeks just north of US 377
9 miles W of Mason
30 miles NE of Junction
51 miles NW of Fredericksburg
119 NW of Austin
107 W of Georgetown
Population:
100 est. (2000)
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History
in a Pecan Shell
The first settlers were Irish (1855) and within a few years they were
joined by German immigrants. Settlement was first along Big and Little
creeks and Honey Creek and the town was first known as either Bluff
Creek Community or Honey Creek Community.
In September, 1890, a post office was established and the submitted
name was Streeter after early settler Samuel T, Streeter.
In 1870 a Baptist church formed and the town had a cotton gin and
a flour mill. There had been a school, earlier, on Honey Creek, but
Streeter didn't have a school of their own until 1900. Streeter was
quarantined for smallpox in 1903 and telephone service began in 1917.
The post office closed its doors in 1970. The population of Streeter
which had been reported as 100 people from 1925 dropped to only 60
by 1964. Streeter has since rebounded to about 100 people. |
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