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| | A
wall in downtown Truscott
Photo courtesy of Tom Walker |
| | The
old bank at Truscott
2001 photo courtesy of Eric Whetstone |
History
according to the Handbook of Texas
Truscott had (in 1880) once been
named China Lake for a grove of Chinaberry trees growing along a small
lake.
With the organization of the county the name was changed to honor
pioneer J. Truscott, an early settler.
Truscott was the first teacher
of the Truscott school, established in 1888. The one-room schoolhouse served until
1907, when it burned.
That same year the town moved a mile to be on the
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway.
The Truscott school burned in1945,
and even after a new school was built, enrollment decreased to the point where
it closed.
Truscott was an aberration during the Great Depression when
the population doubled from 250 in 1930 to 500 in1940.
By1980 Truscott
was on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line and reported 187 residents.
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