Framed and Shot

A Rural Texas Road Trip – 7 of 25

Religion is important in the south, and most places have large and impressive churches. This belongs to the more modest style. And who knows, maybe money is not everything.
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There’s not too much known about Clarkson, Clarkson is a ghost town, resting peacefully in the middle of north-central Texas farmland. It had a post-office from 1889 through 1906, when mail was moved to Rosebud. In 1903 Clarkson had two local schools, one for 43 white students, one for 105 black students. By the 1940s, Clarkson’s population had dwindled to 50. In 1990 it was down to 10.

Today, Clarkson consists of a few scattered farmhouses still occupied, the old Clarkson Baptist Church, the Clarkson Cemetery with old and new tumbstones, and the old schoolhouse down the road is falling into disrepair.
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