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History on a Pinhead
The town dates from 1905 and it had its own post office – albeit briefly
(1907-09). Alton Griffin is credited with operating the town’s first store and
although no population figures are available prior to 1940 – the figure for the
census that year was a mere 50 people. That year the town consisted of the store,
a church and a blacksmith. The decades passed and the population declined to where
on 16 people resided there by 1980 and it was only half of that by 2000. |
Photographer's
Note:
All that remains of Champion except for the cemetery. Located on
highway 1230 4 miles south of I-20 about 10 miles WSW of Roscoe. - Mike
Price, December 08, 2007 |
| Champion
photos above courtesy of Mike
Price, December, 2008 | |
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