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History in
a Pecan Shell
When the Fort Worth
and Denver City Railway extended their line through the area in 1882,
the railroad platted a town along the tracks and named it Avondale.
Although it was on a railroad - things got off to a slow start. They
had a post office as early as 1890, but by 1910 the population was
a mere eighteen people. The school, however, had forty-six students
who came from a wide area. The town wasn't bypassed by the railroad
like many Texas towns, but the highway
(Highway 81) bypassed it in 1920. The store and post office closed
and even the depot closed in 1924.
The town is now what is known as a sparsely populated rural community.
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