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History in
a Pecan Shell
Jim Jones is credited
with founding Custer City in 1876 - the nation's Centennial Year.
For this reason the town had been named Centennial City. It
was later renamed after George A. Custer, the boy-general of the Civil
War and the man who undercounted the Indian population at Little Big
Horn, Montana. Custer's defeat occurred in 1876 and the townspeople
renamed their town in his memory.
A post office operated between 1877 and 1902.
Custer City had a population of 300 in 1882, but ten years later the
population had shrunk to only 25 persons. The site of Custer City
stopped appearing on highway maps sometime after the 1940 census.
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Detail
from the famous lithograph |
Postal route
map circa 1906, showing Custer City
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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