Where is sprinkle texas

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TripAdvisor Links. Other TX Communities. Every year, the US Census Bureau creates a population estimate for the preceeding year. The post office at Sprinkle closed in , and for a time mail for the community was sent to Manor.

In , however, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad was built through the town, and the post office at Sprinkle reopened. The railroad helped residents at first, but the population continued to decline, falling to fifty by and to ten by the early s. Around Sprinkle was the focus of a common school district that had one school for sixty White students and one for forty-seven Black students.

In the late s these schools were consolidated with the Manor Independent School District. Today, virtually the only remnants of the Sprinkle community in northeast Travis County are the renovated Barr mansion and the name "Sprinkle Road. Captain Sprinkle died in at the age of His death, following so soon after Barr's early death in , marked the beginning of the decline of the town of Sprinkle.

The town also suffered the loss of young men and women to a typhoid fever epidemic, and to World War I. The Great Depression also hurt the town, as did the drop in cotton prices during the war. After these events, fewer residents and fewer economic reasons remained for the existence of the town.