Coesfield, Texas, Cooke County. (original) (raw)

History in a Pecan Shell

The town was given its name by Frank Liedke, a Civil War veteran, who moved to the area in 1867 and named the town after his hometown in Germany. After the Civil War Coesfield had a number of residents who were veterans that had moved to the area to farm.

A post office opened there in 1883, and the town's population grew from twenty-five in 1884 to 150 in 1890. Its post office closed in 1906, and by 1933 the population of Coesfield had declined to eighty-one. By the mid-1980s only a few residents remained.

1907 postal map showing Coesfield in NE Cooke County
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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