Callahan, TX (DeWitt County)

Type: General Entry

Published: 1952

Updated: August 5, 2020

Callahan, an early school community five miles east of Yorktown in western DeWitt County, was organized as a school district in 1880. The area was predominantly settled by German immigrants. The school, important in the county's development because of its relatively early establishment as a focus of the surrounding rural area, operated until 1945, when its students were transferred to the Ratcliff School and to Yorktown.

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Nellie Murphree, A History of DeWitt County (Victoria, Texas, 1962).

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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.

Nellie Murphree, “Callahan, TX (DeWitt County),” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 29, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/callahan-tx-dewitt-county.

Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Original Publication Date:: 1952
Most Recent Revision Date:: August 5, 2020

Related Book(s):

Texas Almanac 2022–2023

Texas Almanac 2020-2021


Linked Data from the Texas Almanac:
Place: Callahan
Currently Exists: No
Place Type: Town
Town Fields: Has post office: No

Is Incorporated: No
Belongs to: DeWitt County

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