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A scene in Yarrellton
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, 8-04 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
AKA Yaralton, or
Yarrelton, the town was formed in the late 1860s by settlers from
Alabama. The town was named to honor Storekeeper / Judge Tom Yarrell.
The first classes of the school were held under a brush-arbor in 1876.
A post office opened in 1886. In 1890 the population was 50 and the
town had a gin and two stores.
Yarrellton was once famous for its huge Fourth of July picnics, which
sometimes drew crowds over a thousand people. In 1941 the population
was reported as fifty-eight and its been in a slow decline ever since. |
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