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History in
a Pecan Shell
Settlement
began in the 1880s although it wasn’t until shortly after 1900 when
a store opened for the area ranchers in 1914 a post office opened
inside the store.
An Englishman named Crawley opened a private school here shortly after
the turn of the 20th Century and around 1920 a one room school opened
its doors.
In the mid 1920s there were an estimated 75 Hackberrians served by
two businesses. By the 1940s, the population declined to just 50.
When the school was consolidated in 1953, with the Nueces Canyon School
District the town lost its identity and by the early 1970s only the
cemetery was left with a few scattered houses.
Still, the community somehow stayed on maps and residents (all three
of them) made themselves available for the 2000 census. |
Edwards
County
1920s Map showing Hackberry
(near Real County
line)
From Texas state map #10749
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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