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History
in a Pecan Shell
Settlers began arriving in the 1840s and the community was first called
Grittersville, after one of the first businesses - a steam-powered
gristmill. In 1879 the town began receiving mail and the population
increased during the 1880s. Residents decided they needed a better
name and so the men who had built the gristmill ( J. F. and William
Gober) were so honored.
The population was a healthy 250 by 1890. Gober's industrial base
was helped by a quarrying business. The population reached its high-water
mark of 300 around the start of the Great Depression and it subsequently
declined - reaching about 200 by the mid-1950s. Gober had a population
of 246 in the mid-1960s which has since declined to the current estimate
of 146. |
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