NIX
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NAME: Nix COUNTY: Kaufman ROADS: 2WD GRID: 3 CLIMATE: Mild Winter, Hot Summers BEST TIME TO VISIT: All Year |
COMMENTS:
Clearded land, not much left REMAINS: Gravely Roads, and some foundations |
| Nix was first brought into existence when a local farmer Named Nicholas Nix started a farm by the Buffalo Creek. In 1868 Nicholas Nix created A store for travellers from East Texas, for a while there was great competition between Haughts Store, in Dallas County, and Nix's in Kaufman County. The store brought in Settlers, and on May 22nd 1872 a plat was filed for the Town of Nix, with a population of a 105 residents. On December 20th 1878 The Town of Nix was incorporated as a municipality, and had a population of 265 residents, By 1880 The population was 312, and the town had a saloon, a bank, a hotel, a barber shop, a school, a post office and two general merchandise stores. The town thrived for a while with a police department housed in the City hall, to secure law and order under the town of Nix's first Mayor Nicholas Nix. The population of Nix held firm at around 550 in 1885 but dwindled to 382 in 1890 when the Texas Pacific Rail Road passed up Nix in favor of Mesquite. By 1900 only 248 people called Nix home. and in 1902 a fire destroyed about half the town from William B. Meador Street to Hood Road. destroying the Nix school house. by 1910 only 116 people lived in Nix, and a second fire in 1916 burnt almost all that was left of Nix. By 1920 the last year Nix was enumerated as municipality it only had a population of 51. Today the Town of Nix is a set of barren fields Divided by FM 460 (old Nicholas Nix Street) just south I-80. Submitted by: Michael Depolo |
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