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TURNERTOWN,
TEXAS
AKA
TurnerstownRusk
County, East Texas
Highways 42 and 64
10 Miles W of Henderson
21
Miles S of Longview
Population:
00076 (2000) |
History in a Pecan
Shell
Turnertown started as smaller community just east of the present
location. After the construction of the highways, the population clustered around
the intersection. With the discovery of oil
in 1930 Turnertown became one of the near-mythical boomtowns. In the mid 1930s
the population reached its zenith of 1,500 - never to even come close to that
inflated figure. The decline was steep. In the early 1940s it had dropped to a
mere 350. By the mid-1960s it was 150 and has since declined to the present (2000)
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