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Near the 1857 ranch of Samuel and Martha (Hastings) McCracken, a post office opened in 1869 and was named by veterans of Sibley's Civil War campaign in New Mexico. The town had businesses, a school, and a blacksmith shop where DeWitt County Sheriff Jack Helm died in 1873 from a blast from the gun of John Wesley Hardin. The post office closed in 1883.
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