Huckabay is an unincorporated community located on State Highway 108, ten miles north of Stephenville in Erath County, Texas, United States. It had a population of approximately 150 in 1990.
The Huckabay Independent School District serves area students.
The small town of Huckabay was founded in the late eighteen hundreds. Gerldine Griswold wrote of how the community was started by John A. Huckabay, Ben Fincher, John and W.C. Copeland, John Gentry...
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Huckabay is an unincorporated community located on State Highway 108, ten miles north of Stephenville in Erath County, Texas, United States. It had a population of approximately 150 in 1990.
The Huckabay Independent School District serves area students.
The small town of Huckabay was founded in the late eighteen hundreds. Gerldine Griswold wrote of how the community was started by John A. Huckabay, Ben Fincher, John and W.C. Copeland, John Gentry, Abe Metsgar, John W. Jones and others who were moving west from Arkansas and Tennessee. The head of the Bosque was the area were they settled which was known as "Flatwoods," but was changed to Huckabay, when John Huckabay established a post office. One hundred and sixty acres was claimed by each of the families, which was where they built their homes. After the settlers had wells dug and their homes built, churches, schools and other public buildings began to go up.
The families that started settling the land that we know as Huckabay, worked...
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