Salt Gap [Postcard]
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Salt Gap [Postcard]Description
A plain postcard postmarked on April 12, 1962, in Salt Gap, Texas - thirty-two years after reported closed. Signed by the postmaster on back.Context
Salt Gap is named for nearby Salt Creek. A post office operated there from 1905 to 1913 and from 1924 to sometime after 1930. During the mid-1930s Salt Gap comprised a school, a gin, a gristmill, and two stores. A peak population of sixty was reported in 1939. Salt Gap had twenty-five residents in 1990. The population remained the same in 2000.Category
Ghost Towns
Urbanization, TSHA Categories