Kerrdale
Kerrdale was a post office at Spears Chapel, which is on Farm Road 2991 five miles southeast of Burkeville in eastern central Newton County. In 1909 J. J. Kerr established a small general store in the Spears Chapel community. The following year he secured a post office. Kerr was, according to that year's census, a thirty-year-old, White, native Texan with a wife and one child. The office served Spears Chapel, which had about thirty families, and the settlement at New Columbia, which was rapidly growing with the help of the newly established McMahon Handle Company. Inhabitants of New Columbia complained that the Kerrdale post office, three miles distant across rough terrain, was inconvenient. A. A. (Jack) McMahon and J. Polk McMahon, founders of the McMahon Handle Company, persuaded Kerr to liquidate his stock and become general manager of their own store. The post office, named Jack's, moved with Kerr; it closed in 1916. Although most of the residents left when the handle company closed in 1915, a few houses remain at Spears Chapel.
Robert Wooster | © TSHA
Adapted from the official Handbook of Texas, a state encyclopedia developed by Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). It is an authoritative source of trusted historical records.
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Belongs to
Kerrdale is part of or belongs to the following places:
Currently Exists
No
Place type
Kerrdale is classified as a Town
Associated Names
- (Spears Chapel)
Location
Latitude: 30.97602850Longitude: -93.60295200
Has Post Office
No
Is Incorporated
No