Drasco Community

Drasco's name was assembled from leftovers. The Handbook of Texas says it was composed of letters taken from the names residents had submitted to the post office and had rejected, and that the place had earlier been called County Line for its nearness to the Taylor County boundary. The post office ran from 1904 to 1911. The population is said never to have passed thirty. By 1940 fifteen people and one store remained, a 1982 county map still showed two churches and several businesses, and twenty people were counted in 2000.

What the plaque says

Drasco Community Originally called County Line. Named changed when general store owner R. O. Kerr applied for a post office and was granted one under name Drasco on Dec. 16, 1904. (Post office site is across street, south.) Kerr was postmaster until 1909. First school house was built in 1902 on land donated by Tom Puckett. School consolidated with Winters schools in 1947. During Drasco's thriving years, there were 2 stores, a cotton gin, a blacksmith shop, a 5-room school building and 2 churches -- Baptist church is still active. Population never exceeded 30. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Z. I. Hale Museum and Rock Hotel — 8.4 mi
  A free museum in a Winters optometrist's office, a 1909 railroad hotel and a 1927 implement dealership, with Rogers Hornsby's hometown memorabilia and a 1912 horse-drawn cotton picker.
• Abilene State Park — 12 mi
  A pecan-shaded park on Elm Creek in the Callahan Divide south of Abilene, with red sandstone CCC buildings, a summer pool, a bird blind and yurts under the trees.
• Fort Chadbourne — 15 mi
  An 1852 infantry post and Butterfield stage station on a Coke County ranch, its fallen stone buildings rebuilt since 1999 by the descendant of the family that has ranched the land since 1877.
• Buffalo Gap Historic Village — 17 mi
  The 1880 stone courthouse and jail of the county seat Abilene took away, with about twenty old buildings from around West Texas gathered around it since 1956.

More markers nearby

• Pumphrey — 4.0 mi
• Winters Brass Band — 7.8 mi
• Winters FFA Chapter — 7.9 mi
• Valley Creek Station — 8.2 mi