Oglesby Leon Junction Rail Payroll — Coryell County

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Oglesby Leon Junction Rail Payroll — Coryell County

Lost Treasure TX • Coryell County County
Description
Eastern Coryell County legend of railroad payroll near Oglesby and Leon Junction — when the 1882 Waco–Gatesville line and cotton-shipping depots opened the county to outside markets.
Historical Notes
In 1882 the Texas and St. Louis Railway completed the Waco-to-Gatesville section, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe crossed southern Coryell near Copperas Cove. The railroads prompted Oglesby, Lime City, and Leon Junction and made Gatesville a major shipping center. Leon Junction on the Leon River and Farm Road 931 was settled in the early 1880s; the Texas and St. Louis completed the Waco–Gatesville track that year. Oglesby — originally Hilltop — incorporated in 1953 and benefited from ordnance-plant jobs between Oglesby and McGregor during World War II. Railroad-era folklore imagines paymaster chests and cotton-buyer specie near depots when banks were distant. The St. Louis Southwestern abandoned track between Lime City and Gatesville in 1972. Coordinates mark the Oglesby–Leon Junction rail corridor east of Gatesville.
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