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THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY BUILT THE DELMAR DEPOT NEAR HERE IN 1880 BEFORE RAIL ACTIVITY SHIFTED TO RED GAP (LATER CISCO). A NEW COMMUNITY NAMED DOTHAN FORMED AND GAINED A POST OFFICE IN 1902. JIM AND MANIRVAL (SHORT) DUNAWAY, WHO SETTLED HERE IN 1886, DONATED LAND FOR A COMMUNITY CEMETERY. THE FIRST BURIAL WAS THEIR GREAT-GRANDSON, CARROLL LEO DUNAWAY, IN 1905. DOTHAN INCLUDED A SCHOOL AND STORES AND BY 1915 REPORTED A POPULATION OF FIFTY. THE SCHOOL CLOSED IN 1940. FAMILY AND FRIENDS HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THE CEMETERY, WHICH FEATURES GRANITE, LIMESTONE AND FIELDSTONE GRAVE MARKERS, A WIRE PERIMETER FENCE, AND AT LEAST 22 VETERANS’ GRAVES. THE DOTHAN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION FORMED IN 1989 TO PRESERVE THIS HISTORIC VESTIGE OF A RURAL COMMUNITY. |
