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Fentress, Texas

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A one-room school building that offered instruction for three months each year opened in 1895. In 1922, a two-story, five-classroom facility with an auditorium was opened to replace the original building, but it was shut down in the 1940s with a merger into the
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Founded as Riverside in the later 1800s around a church, the community was renamed to Fentress in 1982. The population was 291 by 2000 but had declined to 86 in 2010.
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fentress, Texas
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in southwestern Caldwell County, approximately eight miles northwest of
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Texas Historical Commission marker at Fentress United Methodist Church
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Unincorporated communities in Caldwell County, Texas
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Unincorporated community
Fentress is located in Texas
Fentress is located in the United States
29°45′22″N 97°46′35″W / 29.75611°N 97.77639°W / 29.75611; -97.77639
Country
State
Texas
County
Caldwell
Time zone
UTC-6
Central (CST)
DST
UTC-5
ZIP code
Area code(s)
512 & 737
GNIS
unincorporated community
Caldwell County
Texas
Handbook of Texas
Austin
Round Rock
Metropolitan Statistical Area
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
George H. W. Bush
State Highway 80
FM 20
Luling

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