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History in
a Pecan Shell
The Handbook of
Texas Online states that it "probably" was located on the banks of
Bluff Creek. The name comes from Mount Moro - a geographic feature
10 miles SE and the town used the name Mount Moro when their
post office was granted in 1880.
The community built a school in 1887 and the post office closed in
1889, reopening five years later simply as Moro, Texas, when the town
had 40 residents.
Moro had the barest of businesses. A grocery, and two blacksmith shops
was the economic core and there was a Baptist church and the previously
mentioned Jackson school which had a 1902 enrollment of eighty students
taught by a single teacher.
In 1914 the town's economic engine was animal breeding. Moro had two
horse and mule breeders, a cattle dealer, and a dealer in livestock.
The post office closed its doors in the early 20s and by the Great
Depression took out the store and school. About all that remains today
are in these images by Barclay
Gibson. |
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1882 Texas map
showing Mount Moro (N of Moro Mt.)
in SW Taylor County
From Texas
state map #2134
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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