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1920s
Coke County Map showing Sanco and other ghost towns
Courtesy General Land Office |
History in
a Pecan Shell
The town had been named for a Comanche chief named Sanaco. Settled in what
had been Tom Green County in the1880s, the area got its first post office when
rancher J. L. Durham opened up his house in 1888. His home also served as a school,
store and church. A Methodist church was built nearby and in 1907 the fledgling
community moved there. A school was built to serve the town's children as well
as students from the smaller schools of Horse Mountain and Meadow Mountain.
Sanco
prospered with cotton for awhile but the boll
weevil and drought ended cotton production
in the 1920s. The post office closed briefly during the 20s; reopened and then
closed its doors for good in the 1970s. Sanco's last business went under about
that same time. | |
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