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History in
a Pecan Shell
Settlement dates from the mid 1880s. A ten school / church was set
up by Baptist preacher Robert Martin in 1887.
First called Buffalo, for nearby Buffalo Creek, when the post
office opened in 1888, it was renamed to honor settler Vachel Hobbs.
Now that the Baptists had a proper church and the Methodists had built
one in 1903, a new school was constructed in 1908, also taking the
name of Hobbs.
By 1914 Hobbs only had 45 residents, but it did have telephone service
as well as the aforementioned churches and a general store. The post
office closed in 1915.
By 1925 several other schools united to form the Hobbs Rural High
School District. A modern two-story school was built just north of
town and in a short time residents and business moved the three miles
to better appreciate the new building.
"Old" Hobbs retained a store and several buildings, but "New" Hobbs
was the de facto community - albeit a dispersed community with no
center (besides the school).
In 1927 the Methodist church was razed due to declining membership.
The population fell to 70 but three businesses remained. The town
was 'electrified" in 1939.
A cooperative gin was organized in the 40s and in the mid 1950s they
rebuilt the high school. It maintained an estimated population of
91 from the 1970 census through 2000. Hobbs' school was closed in
1989 and the pupils dispersed to schools in either Roby,
Snyder
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Fisher
County TX 1907 Postal Map
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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