Gano, Texas, Williamson County ghost town. (original) (raw)

History in a Pecan Shell

The Watson and Wilder families founded the town around 1890. It formed around a school that had been there since the late 1870s. Although the school had been called Gentry, the community was named after Richard Gano, a Confederate general.

A post office opened the following year (1891), and in 1893 the community was on the rise with a population of 75. It was small, but had a doctor - as well as the three essential businesses of a store, gin and mill.

The Gentry school was renamed Gano by 1903 but the post office closed its doors in 1907.

Schools have been called the lifeblood of communities, and shortly after the Gano school was consolidated, the town shriveled by 1950 it had been dropped from most maps.

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