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History in
a Pecan Shell
Turnertown started as smaller
community just east of the present location. After the construction
of the highways, the population clustered around the intersection.
With the discovery of oil
in 1930 Turnertown became one of the near-mythical boomtowns. In the
mid 1930s the population reached its zenith of 1,500 - never to even
come close to that inflated figure. The decline was steep. In the
early 1940s it had dropped to a mere 350. By the mid-1960s it was
150 and has since declined to the present (2000) 76. |
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