Salt Gap - Texas Ghost Town

SALT GAP

NAME: Salt Gap
COUNTY: McCulloch
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 3
CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Winter, spring, fall

COMMENTS: Much to see, especially the post office.
REMAINS: Mainly abandonded buildings.

Salt Gap became a town in 1905 when it received its post office and its first school. The school was a small frame structure that served the community until 1938 when a larger brick building took its place. The town was a small agricultural community with about sixty residents and a few businesses to support them. The consolidation of agriculture in the forties and fifties reduced the importance of the town as more and more small family farms disappeared and their owners moved to larger towns and cities. Salt Gap has been reduced to abandoned buildings and other structures as evidence of its one time existence SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth	Saltgap Courtesy Dan Gulino

Salt Gap became a town in 1905 when it received its post office and its first school. The school was a small frame structure that served the community until 1938 when a larger brick building took its place. The town was a small agricultural community with about sixty residents and a few businesses to support them. The consolidation of agriculture in the forties and fifties reduced the importance of the town as more and more small family farms disappeared and their owners moved to larger towns and cities. Salt Gap has been reduced to abandoned buildings and other structures as evidence of its one time existence SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

Saltgap
Courtesy Dan Gulino

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