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History
in a Pecan Shell
W. J. Newlin is
the town’s namesake. Newlin supposedly camped here with Charles
Goodnight on a buffalo
hunt in the late 1870s. Newlin was also instrumental in platting the
town in the late 1880s when the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway
was crossing Hall County.
Andrew M. Embry, who owned the townsite, constructed a hotel and lumberyard,
anticipating immediate growth. A depot soon appeared, followed by
a school. The railroad agent W. H. Meador opened the town’s first
store which gave space to the town’s post office (granted in early
1890).
The town reached its zenith in the late 1920s with a population of
457. Newlin lost its bank in the Great Depression and after WWII
the Newlin school merged with Estelline’s
schools.
The post office closed its doors in the late 1960s and the abandoned
bank and a store were the only “downtown” structures in the 1980s.
From the mid 1980s through 2000 the number of residents has been given
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