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Entering
Sedwick
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, February 2007 |
History in a Pecan
Shell
It was originally known as Vesta when it was founded about 1875.
The name was changed to honor local landowner John Francis Sedwick when the community
became a station on the Texas Central Railroad.
A cotton gin was built
about 1900, and a post office was established in 1905 with Maude S. Randolph as
postmistress. Sedwick grew suddenly when oil was discovered nearby in 1921, although
by 1940 the population was only fifty, where it remained for about twenty years
before declining. The post office closed in the mid-1930s. The community was still
listed in 1990. | |
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