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An unincorporated farming community on FM 1815, nine miles northeast of Montague. Founded in 1886 when the Gainesville, Henrietta and Western Railway pushed through northern Montague County; the tracks were pulled in 1971.
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Submit a business →Site of the 1759 Battle of the Twin Villages, where a fortified Taovaya village repulsed a Spanish expedition under Diego Ortiz Parrilla. The Anglo town that grew up nearby in the 1870s was a Chisholm Trail supply stop for drovers crossing the Red River; a 1936 state historical marker and a cemetery remain.
Read article →A gated lakeside community on the east shore of Lake Nocona, established in 1971 around an 18-hole golf course, a private grass airstrip, and roughly 500 home sites.
Read article →Unincorporated community at a bend of the Red River in the extreme northeastern corner of Montague County. Settled in 1862 by families from Illinois, the community was nearly depopulated by a December 1863 Kiowa and Comanche raid — approximately 250 warriors, at least 12 settlers killed — the defining frontier event in county history.
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