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History in
a Pecan Shell
In the 1870s the
railroad was enabling logging operations deep in the East
Texas forests, Nimrod became a stop on the Houston, East and West
Railroad. The name is Biblical. Nimrod was the grandson of Ham and
the Great-Grandson of Noah.
In 1905 Nimrod was a lumber camp. Having a sawmill gave it a bit more
prestige than most temporary lumber towns, but like the others, it
too, faded from history.
It appeared on state maps as late as the one below (1920s). It is
not to be confused with the surviving town
of the same name in Eastland County. |
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