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History in
a Pecan Shell
Settlement was
reported as early as 1879, and three years later it was serving as
a stage and mail stop for the Abilene
to San
Angelo run. The Guion post office opened in 1884, closing sometime
after 1930, when nearby Ovalo took the
responsibility. In the mid-1880s a small building was used as a school
and a Union church. The Lemon's Gap Baptist church moved to Guion
in 1883 and held its first service in the union church on September
12, 1886. Later the Guion school consolidated with Lemon's Gap schools.
The town had no cemetery of its own. the dead were interred in either
Lemon's Gap, McBee, Cedar Gap, or Bradshaw
cemeteries. In the early 1890s Guion only had twenty-five residents
with a store, mill, gin and blacksmith shop.
When the railroad came through in 1910 the original settlement became
known as Old Guion and the community was moved three miles
to be near the railroad.
Although the town retained a population of eighteen from 1925 through
1990, nothing remains of the community. All that remains at "old"
Guion is the ruins of the stagecoach station keeper's residence. |
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Guion High School
Basketball Team, 1923-24
Photo courtesy Marisa Neel |
| "I took
a picture of the photo from a 93 yr old lady that attended school
there. She had the original. The names in the back are also attached.
It's a great photo. Enjoy! - Marisa Neel, Bulverde,
TX, October 19, 2021 |
Names of the
Guion High School Basketball Team, 1923-24
Photo courtesy Marisa Neel |
1907 Taylor
County postal map showing Guion SW of Abilene
near Lawn & Audra
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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