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History in
a Pecan Shell
Named after the
Egyptian River, Nile seems to have arrived alongside the tracks of
the International and Great Northern Railroad in the late 1880s. A
post office opened in 1890 and by 1892 fourteen people were receiving
mail there. The economy was strong enough to support two cotton gins
in the mid 1890s as well as a general store. By this time the population
had risen to 35. By 1903 the one-teacher school taught forty-three
students but by 1914 the population was back to 25 and the post office
closed two years later. The school managed to stay open through 1946
when it was merged with the schools in Thorndale.
Nile's history stops at this point. Today there is no sign of Nile
on county maps; not even a cemetery. |
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