Pisgah, Texas

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Pisgah, Texas, is a ghost town that was located in Navarro County, Texas, about 12 miles south of Corsicana.

History[]

The area of Pisgah was first settled in the late 1840s. The Pisgah post office was established in 1891, but closed the following year. By 1900, the town included a school, a church, and several shops and industries. The school was merged into the Richland school following World War II. Except for the cemetery and a few houses, Pisgah had largely disappeared by the mid-1960s.[1]

John Wesley Hardin, the outlaw, taught school there for a short time in the 1860s[2]: 16  while on the run from the law. He claimed while there he shot a man's eye out just to win a bottle of whiskey in a bet.[2] Hardin also wrote that his cousin, "Simp" Dixon, and he encountered a group of soldiers in the area, and each killed one before they fled the area.[2]: 17 

References[]

  1. '^ Texas Handbook Online; website; "Pisgah, TX (Navarro County)"; accessed July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Hardin, John Wesley (1896). The Life of John Wesley Hardin: As Written By Himself. Seguin, Texas: Smith & Moore. ISBN 978-0-8061-1051-6. Retrieved March 30, 2011.

Further reading[]

Putnam, Wyvonne; comp.; Navarro County History (in 5 volumes); Quanah, Texas; Nortex; 1975–84

Coordinates: 31°53′00″N 96°29′27″W / 31.88321°N 96.49081°W / 31.88321; -96.49081


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