1891 Nolanville, Texas Geo. F. Robinson letterhead handwritten signed Robinson

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This letter is Hand Written and Signed by
GEORGE F. ROBINSON
HISTORY OF NOLANVILLE:
Nolanville is on South Nolan Creek, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line, and State Highway 190 just east of Killeen in western Bell County. It was originally named Nolan Valley, presumably for Nolan Creek, which was in turn named for explorer and filibuster Phillip Nolan
. It was one of the
earliest White settlements in Bell County.
The census of
1850 listed its population as forty-six.
A post office named Noland Valley was opened there in 1878, and the railroad reached the community in the early 1880s. The town changed
its name to Nolanville in 1883
. Nolanville had been the old name for Belton before the latter became county seat in 1852. In 1884 Nolanville had 100 inhabitants,
two mill-gins,
three churches, and a school. A weekly newspaper, the Item, was started by 1896. Nolanville School, one of the larger rural schools in the county in the early twentieth century, had ninety pupils in 1903. The community had 150 to 200 residents through the mid-1940s but began to decline after World War II
. After dropping to fifty inhabitants in the 1950s, the town began to revive in the 1960s and had 200 residents and six businesses when it incorporated in 1966. By the later 1960s Nolanville was caught up in the expansion of the Killeen-Fort Hood area, and, as a suburban community, its population increased  and in 2000 the population reached 2,150.
A Historical marker can be found between Harker Heights and Nolanville that is the Pleasant Hill Cemetery about 1.3 miles west of Nolanville.  According to the marker, the first person interred in the cemetery was J. Carmack in 1885.  The site was then the farm of Fleming Trigg Cox, who arrive in the area from Missouri with his wife Mary Guinevera, in 1852.  Both Fleming and his wife are buried at the site.  In 1907 Samuel and Nicia Jane Cox, descendants deeded about 4 acres for the cemetery.  The Pleasant Hill Cemetery was organized in 1901 and a tabernacle was built in the same year. Early settlers to Western Bell County are buried in the cemetery along with veterans of the Mexican War, Civil War, World War I and World War II and the Korean War and Vietnam War.
CONDITION:
Normal letter folds, with some toning at margins.  In very good condition for it's age!
The "EBAY ITEM" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letterhead.
Approximate size
of
letterhead is
8 1/2" X 11".
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