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MANSON, TEXAS. The site of Manson, two miles from Edna
in central Jackson County, was known as Edna Stock Pens as late
as 1883. When, however, the Texas and New Orleans Railroad
erected a station on the site soon afterward, locals renamed the
community that grew up around it Manson, after A. L. Manson, a
dispatcher employed by the Southern Pacific line. In 1936 the
hamlet consisted of two business establishments, a farmhouse,
and a row of dwellings built along U.S. Highway 59. By 1988
Manson had apparently ceased to exist as a community.
History from the Handbook of Texas Online |
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