Whon - Texas Ghost Town

WHON

NAME: Whon
COUNTY: McCullogh
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 3
CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Winter, spring, fall

COMMENTS: A few interesting wood structures to see.
REMAINS: A few buildings.

A Mexican ranch hand whose given name was Juan worked for a Mr. and Mrs. Sam McCain who purchased land along Camp Creek in 1903. It was Mrs. McCain who decided to petition postal authorities for a post office. For a name, she thought Juan would be a nice name for the town. She was uncertain how to spell the name so spelled it WHON on the application because that's the way it sounded and that became the name of the town. By the 1920s, the town consisted of forty to fifty families with a hundred and fifty children attending school. The community began to decline in the 1930s with small-scale cotton farming becoming a thing of the past. Visitors to the old town will find surviving structures of those who once inhabited a town named by mistake. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

A Mexican ranch hand whose given name was Juan worked for a Mr. and Mrs. Sam McCain who purchased land along Camp Creek in 1903. It was Mrs. McCain who decided to petition postal authorities for a post office. For a name, she thought Juan would be a nice name for the town. She was uncertain how to spell the name so spelled it WHON on the application because that's the way it sounded and that became the name of the town. By the 1920s, the town consisted of forty to fifty families with a hundred and fifty children attending school. The community began to decline in the 1930s with small-scale cotton farming becoming a thing of the past. Visitors to the old town will find surviving structures of those who once inhabited a town named by mistake. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

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