Ruins of Pontotoc Texas
by David and Carol Kelly
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Ruins of Pontotoc Texas
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David and Carol Kelly
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Photograph - Photograph
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You will find Pontotoc while exploring the Texas Hill Country hunting for bluebonnets.
The owner of the town's first store came from Pontotoc, Mississippi so that's likely the source. The town dates from the arrival of several families in 1859 and a post office was established in 1880. A small boom in the form of a mica-mining operation came about in the 1920s which increased the population by 50% but even then - it only reached 300. A disastrous fire in August 1947 took out a good portion of the stores downtown.
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