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History in
a Pecan Shell
Newman
today is little more than a church and cemetery. Its isolated location
is due to its having been a ranch in the 1880s. James F. Newman arrived
in 1880 and a post office was granted the following year. It remained
open for nine years.
Although only ten people called Newman home in the mid 1880s, by the
end of that decade it had acquired a school which doubled as a Methodist
Church until a separate church building was constructed in 1907.
With its anemic population, Newman was never able to support more
than a grocery. After consolidating with the school in Sylvester
after WWII,
Newman’s population drifted away. |
Fisher
County 1907 postal map showing Newman
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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