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Egan, Texas is on some maps and not on others.
It’s at the corner of Farm roads 2280 and 917, 25 miles almost due south of
Fort Worth. Settled by M. J., J. P., and W. E. Miller during the Civil War, the
town site was surveyed in 1883, when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad built
tracks through the area. The town was named by a surveyor, but records don’t
show who that was. A post office began service there in 1883, and within two
years there were 50 in the population; there was also a store, a school, and
two churches. There was once a winery in Egan, but it closed during
prohibition. By the mid-1920s the population had risen to 115. Egan's post
office closed sometime after 1930, and the population fell to back to 50 by the
late 1940s. By 1990 the population had drifted down to about 21 and has
remained at that level. The Near-Normal
Travelers went back to this area to sample the burgers at the Best Burger Barn
(previously reviewed in Looking
around Lillian in April, 2016). Parked in front of the restaurant was a
1937 Ford business coupe, harkening back to just after Egan was in its heyday. For
information about my rating system, see Reading the
Reviews.
