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AVOCA,
TEXASJones
County, Texas Panhandle
Highway 6 and FMs 600 and 1636
8 Miles SE of Stamford
20 Miles N of Abilene
Population:
121 (estimate)
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Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, July 2004 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Founded in the early 1880s, the town was first called
Spring Creek. When the post office opened (1893) the name officially became
Avo. The Texas Central Railroad built through Jones County in 1900, and
storekeeper J. L. Crostwaite moved his store / post office three miles to the
railroad. This new post office took the more finished name of Avoca.
The
town had a very respectable population 500 people in 1908, but that proved to
be the record high. Hardships and drought - not to mention the brighter lights
of distant cities reduced the number of Avocans. By 1940 it was down to a mere
150, reaching about 121 for the 1980 Census - the same number in use for 2000. |
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