Hasse Community

Hasse was once a small town with a bank. The Handbook dates its founding to 1892 and says its post office opened in 1900, when it had more than 100 people. By 1915 it counted 250 residents and more than fifteen businesses, including a bank and a telephone exchange. About 248 people lived there in 1940, but only five businesses remained. By 1950 the population had fallen to forty. The Hasse school was annexed to the Comanche district in 1955, and the Handbook reported forty-three residents from 1980 through 2000.

What the plaque says

Hasse Community Began as "Cordwood Junction," a siding on the Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railroad. Flatcars loaded wood here to be shipped over a wide area. As demand for the fuel increased, the railroad built a station house at site. It was named in 1892 for O. H. Hasse, thought to have been the local railway agent, 1890s. Cotton and cattle brought more business to town. A cotton gin, stock pens, and lumber yard were built. With the advent of automobiles, migration to urban centers, and highways, however, Hasse began to dwindle. Today only a few buildings remain. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dublin Bottling Works — 14 mi
  The Erath County plant that bottled Dr Pepper with cane sugar from 1891 until a 2012 settlement ended its Dr Pepper license, and that still makes its own sodas the same way.
• Hamilton County Courthouse — 27 mi
  A limestone courthouse of 1886-87 on the Hamilton square, built after the county's 1878 courthouse burned, enlarged in the early 1930s and rededicated in 2012 after restoration.

More markers nearby

• Oakwood Cemetery — 6.3 mi
• Proctor Cemetery — 6.7 mi
• Central Christian Church of Comanche — 6.7 mi
• The Comanche Chief — 6.8 mi