Tuckertown Community
Navarro County, Texas


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Once located approximately six miles southeast of Corsicana in Navarro County Texas. Tuckertown was an oil boom town created in July of 1923, by Harry L. Tucker, a site promoted who had helped develop new boom towns in the Ranger and Eastland Fields. With in two months, the population had grown to 3,000 and in another moth, Tuckertown was a little city of 6,000. Tuckertown declined after production in the Powell Field decreased. By 1931 most of the structures of Tuckertown had been torn down. Today there is no physical evidence of the existing of Tuckertown. Pastures cover the site.

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