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From its beginning as a west central Texas frontier community Winters grew from a retail support center for the surrounding agricultural community to a small-town railroad link to an oil, gas and manufacturing center. Settlement of the area of Win…
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Mazeland (2½ mi. SW) was founded in 1903 when a post office and store opened on A.B. Hutchinson's ranch. Community was probably named for the corn or "maize" which grows in the area. A one-room school, built 1 mi. W. (1904), later s…
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Founded about 1899. Named for Wm. M. Pumphrey (1849-1937), early settler. A deacon of the Baptist Church, he would put his organ in a wagon on weekends and take it, his wife and 11 children to attend services in Wingate.
In 1900, as the…
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Settled in 1880's. Named for C.R. Crews, Ballinger businessman. Mrs. Betty Sims was earliest voluntary teacher-mail carrier. School was built 1890 (with the Rev. Mr. Lockhart, first teacher). Post office established 1892 in Wise & Broughten store;…
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Named for Gap in Table Mountain. Established Feb. 14, 1878; post office transferred in 1882 to the town of Content 2 miles north. The one-room structure has hand-hewn cedar rafters, cedar shingle roof, and walls of roughly-hewn oak logs. Also serv…
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Named in honor of William Wyatt Poe, who came to Texas from his native Alabama in late 1870. Married Jerusha Evaline Cline in 1885; had ten children.
?????Moved family to Runnels County, 1904. Gave land for school and church buildings. Was school …
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Founded on January 4, 1954by Miss Myra GloverDedicated on October 13, 1963Because she has given so generously of herself for the benefit of all,the Citizens of Winters, Texas,dedicate this library to Miss Myra GloverThe building was made possible …