Oakland Texas. (original) (raw)

History on a Pinhead

Very little information is available about this Oakland (one of six Texas communities with that name). There were enough residents to form a school in the 1890s and by 1906 there were 21 students although the first population figure for the town was a mere 20 in 1939. In the mid 1960s all that remained was the cemetery and a single business. The population in 1974 was 26 and that number has been used ever since.

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