DOTHAN, TX
DOTHAN, TEXAS. Dothan, near the Callahan county line seven miles west of Cisco in northwestern Eastland County, is on the former site of a depot established as Delmar when the Texas and Pacific Railway built through the area in 1880. Within a year or two, Delmar apparently ceased to exist, as the focus of local rail activity shifted to Red Gap and then to Cisco in 1882. A new community named Dothan sprang up at the site and gained a post office in 1902. A school was established soon afterward, and by 1915 Dothan reported a population of fifty. The community's school was closed in 1940, by which time the population had declined to twenty, a level it still retained in 1990 and 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Homer Stephen, The Frontier Postmasters (Dublin, Texas: Dublin Progress, 1952).
Citation
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"DOTHAN, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnd36), accessed May 20, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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