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History in
a Pecan Shell
Equidistant from
both the Fayette
and Austin county
lines (3 miles) in northern top tip of Colorado
County, the name comes from a solitary oak that grew in the middle
of the community’s main intersection.
Once known as Pisek, the community moved
to be near the Katy railroad’s railhead and when the railroad moved
further toward Houston,
the town moved back, taking the name Lone Oak in 1941 and dropping
the name of Pisek which had been the post office designation.
Enough people still lived in Lone Oak for 20 of them to be counted
in the late 1930s. In the mid-1980s Lone Oak had eighteen households
and two stores. The 2000 census reported a population of 50 scattered
around the vicinity. |
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