Nash, Texas, Ellis County ghost town. (original) (raw)

The old schoolhouse as the Community Center / Museum today
Photo courtesy Bob Worley, August 2005

History on a Pinhead

In the early 1880s Benjamin Reid opened a general store and the community that grew around it was named for local lawyer named N. J. Nash.

The town had a post office for the years 1883 through 1903. The population was given as 75 in 1941 and it's high-water mark seems to have been 1968 when 125 people called Nash home.

Marker of Thomas Alexander Williams who gave this acre "as the building site for the first Garden Valley School, erected about 1875." The town grew up around the school.
Photo courtesy Bob Worley, August 2005

The old Masonic Lodge in Nash
Photo courtesy Bob Worley, August 2005
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The lodge sign.
Photo courtesy Bob Worley, August 2005

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