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| | "Eyes
on Ivan" - Ivan, Texas, 1920s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com | |
| History
in a Pecan Shell
Ivan is a gateway to the Possum Kingdom State Recreation Area. The Handbook
of Texas is short on facts, but they allow that J. O. Brockman named the town
for his son and that the Ivan post office opened at the close of the 19th Century
and shut its doors in 1953.
The population high-water mark was sixty-one
Ivanites in 1920 but it decreased to a mere 15 from the 1970s to the 90s. Today
the only visible business is a bar at the juncture of the above roads. |
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The
only building in Ivan
TE photo Feb. 2004 |
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