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In 1918, Calliham had a post office called Guffeyola in the store of H.H. McGuffey. After oil and gas discoveries from 1917 to 1922, it became a tent city and then a town of shotgun houses. It piped the first natural gas to San Antonio. Its name was changed in 1923 to honor J.T. Calliham, a rancher and townsite owner. It still produces oil and exports fine rocks and petrified wood.
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