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History in
a Pecan Shell
The
town had originally been named Wheatland when it came into
being in the late 1880s as a stop on the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad.
Postal authorities rejected the application for a post office under
the name Wheatland, so a new submission was drawn up to honor Wilbarger
County Judge J. R. Tolbert. The newly named post office opened in
June of 1890.
Early population figure are unavailable but estimates from 1910 to
1930 place the number of residents at near 1,000. Supplying water
to a town that large was problematic and by 1930 the population was
declining at an alarming rate. The post office closed its doors in
the 1930s and by the 1940 Census Tolbert's residents numbered just
75.
The population has remained around 30 from the 1950s to the present.
The town remains on county maps where a cemetery is shown on the southside
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