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History in a Pecan
Shell
Trent was born with the arrival of the Texas and Pacific Railroad
in 1881. The station was equidistant between El
Paso and Texarkana,
the lines two anchor cities. I. R. Trent is the town’s namesake, although it’s
unclear how he earned that distinction.
When the railroad
named its various stations and delivered the signage, Eskota
received Trent’s sign by mistake (and vice versa). To Mr. Trent’s chagrin, he
spent his life living in Eskota
when he should’ve been living in Trent.
A post office was granted two
years after the railroad’s arrival. From a population of 1,200 in 1928, Trent
dropped to a mere 300 residents during the Great Depression – and remained at
the level for decades. It had only increased to 318 by the 2000 census. |
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