GALLOWAY, TEXAS
AKA Gallaway

Panola County, East Texas

FM 31
17 miles SE of Carthage the county seat
2 miles from the Louisiana state line
Population: 71 (2000, 1990)

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Galloway Tx School, WPA project - Ivy covered Walls

Ivy covered Galloway School
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

History in a Pecan Shell

Settled shortly after the Civil War, it may have been formed by refugees from other Southern states. The community opened a school in the 1880s but by the late 1890s it only had 30 pupils.

Galloway managed to survive the Great Depression with a store of its own (no population figures available) but when its school (rebuilt as a WPA project) was merged with those in Carthage after WWII, any hopes of growth were dashed.

It has since become a dispersed rural community. The population was given as 71 for the 2000 census.

Galloway Road Sign
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

Galloway School - WPA project
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

Work Projects Administration 1938-1940 plaque
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010

Galloway School Interior
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2010
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Galloway Methodist Church
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Flatwood Vol Fire Dept
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