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Photo of Downtown Cason in 1932
This picture was taken by Jane Gladys Dunlap in 1932 and submitted to the Pittsburg Gazette in Camp County.
Furnished courtesy of John Wardlow.
Cason is on State Highway 11 and the Louisiana
and Arkansas Railway, five miles west of Daingerfield in
southwestern Morris County. The town grew up around a station on
the East Line and Red River Railroad, which was constructed
through western Morris County in the late 1870s. Many of the
early businesses were transferred from Snow Hill, three miles
north. When the post office, which had been in Snow Hill, was
moved in 1878, the postmaster, William M. Cason, named the new
town Cason in honor of his father, J. W. By 1884 the settlement
had an estimated population of 200, a church, a district school,
and businesses that included sawmills and gristmills and two
cotton gins. By 1892 the population had grown to 250, and a
bedspring factory was in operation. The town reached its peak in
the late 1920s, when the population was estimated at 500. The
population declined between World War IIqv
and 1972, when a population of 160 and five rated businesses
were reported. In 1986 the population was estimated at 165, and
Cason had four rated businesses. In 1990 and 2000 the population
was 173. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jean Connor, A Short History of
Morris County (Daingerfield, Texas: Daingerfield
Bicentennial Commission, 1975).
Cecil Harper, Jr.
- Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. ","The Handbook of Texas Online
(NOTE: "s.v." stands for sub verbo, "under the word.")
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