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History in
a Pecan Shell
Twin
Sisters, Texas was already in use, so when this town (with their
own twin sisters) needed a name for the post office in 1902, the postmaster
cobbled together the names of Meta and Reta Burns to form Mereta.
The town was platted in 1904 when the town had a school, cotton gin
and two stores. Ten years later there were 75 residents but this number
fell to a mere 30 people in the mid 1920s.
By the mid 30s, there were only ten people living in Mereta although
there were four businesses reported. A highway map from the Depression
years shows churches, a school, post office, and two factories(?!)
Somewhere along the line people drifted back and by the time WWII
started, 75 Meretans were home. The population remained at that level
into the 1990s.
Not on the state map. |
Former Ford dealership
in Mereta
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, August 2006 |
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