Darden, TX (Bowie County)

Type: General Entry

Published: 1952

Updated: December 1, 1994

Darden, off U.S. Highway 67 fifteen miles southwest of Boston in southwestern Bowie County, lies in the low hills of the Sulphur Fork of the Red River. The settlement was called Brownstone, for Randolph H. Brown, when it was established on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas in the late 1890s. A post office was granted to the community in 1911. The office was renamed Darden in 1917, then discontinued in 1927. In 1940 Darden had a store and a population of ten; mail was delivered from Bassett, two miles to the northeast. In 1984 only scattered houses remained in the area.

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

Claudia Hazlewood, “Darden, TX (Bowie County),” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 27, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/darden-tx-bowie-county.

Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Original Publication Date:: 1952
Most Recent Revision Date:: December 1, 1994

Related Book(s):

Texas Almanac 2022–2023

Texas Almanac 2020-2021


Linked Data from the Texas Almanac:
Place: Darden
Currently Exists: No
Place Type: Town
USGS ID: 1380838
Town Fields: Has post office: No

Is Incorporated: No
Belongs to: Bowie County
Associated Names: Brownstone
Coordinates: Latitude: 33.30012050°

Longitude: -94.58103680°

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