20 Central Texas Towns That Are Slowly Dying (And Why)

Texas Ghost Towns: A Field Guide to the Forgotten → https://publy.store/t/7xGLOhj Every forgotten town left something standing, and finding it is the only way to understand what happened here. Texas Ghost Towns: A Field Guide to the Forgotten covers ten vanished boomtowns, from Thurber to Glenrio, and how to read what's left. It's also a real field guide, with a chapter on planning your own route to see these places before there's nothing left. Waco and Austin keep growing. But leave the interstate and Central Texas tells a different story. Cotton towns the boll weevil emptied, railroad towns the trains stopped visiting, oil boomtowns that went from a few hundred people to thousands and back again, and the hot-water spa towns people once crossed the country to visit. These are 20 Central Texas towns that are slowly shrinking, census after census, the reason behind each one, and the people still fighting for them: from the hometown church Willie Nelson saved, to the town that shut down its own police to survive, to the hot mineral water city where the New York Giants trained. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Blackland Prairie 2:35 #20 Abbott 4:59 #19 Buckholts 7:17 #18 Tehuacana 9:51 #17 Penelope 12:18 #16 Coolidge 14:46 #15 Thornton 17:13 #14 Rockdale 19:52 #13 Hearne 22:25 #12 Mount Calm 24:46 #11 Malone 28:44 #10 Bremond 31:10 #9 Rosebud 33:27 #8 Hubbard 35:46 #7 Lott 38:10 #6 Kosse 40:53 #5 Mart 43:17 #4 Wortham 45:58 #3 Mexia 48:53 #2 Calvert 51:29 #1 Marlin 54:30 Twenty towns, twenty reasons Which of these towns do you have family in? And if we said a name wrong, tell me how your grandmother said it. Subscribe to EDAN TEXAS for more forgotten towns and abandoned places across Texas. Population figures are from the 2020 U.S. Census. Town names were checked against local sources. Sources: Texas State Historical Association (Handbook of Texas), Texas Historical Commission, Texas Almanac, U.S. Census Bureau, Portal to Texas History, Texas Escapes, Texas Tribune, city and county history pages, and local newspapers. Footage: drone and drive-through footage by independent Texas creators, used for commentary and education. If any of it is yours and you want credit, comment and we'll add your channel here. #Texas #CentralTexas #GhostTowns #SmallTownTexas #TexasHistory