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MOCCASIN, TEXAS. Moccasin, in northwestern Coryell County, was named for Moccasin Bend in the Leon River, where T. D. Hendrickson killed several moccasin snakes. Hendrickson gave the right-of-way for the flag station to be established on the St. Louis and Southwestern Railway in 1911. In 1941 the railroad was abandoned, and the station became only a place name.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Zelma Scott, History of Coryell County (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1965).

Zelma Scott

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