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Fly Gap Schoolhouse 06 / Community Center
Fly Gap Rd.
Mason, TX
Fly Gap is a Texas Ghost Town in the Texas Hill Country of Mason County, 1/2 mile west of Ranch Road 1900, 12 miles northeast of Mason, the county seat, right off Fly Gap Rd. The unusual name is said to come from an incident involving an Indian raid. The settlers staged an ambush in a mountain gap – and when returning to their staked horses, found them horribly fly-bit, hence the name.
The area was home to a dozen families in 1883 and the following year land was donated for a church/ school building. In 1884 the community was granted a post office but it was closed by 1898. The school burned in 1917 but was rebuilt and this building later became home to the Fly Gap Community Club. The one room schoolhouse and cemetery, roughly 50 yards behind the school, are all that remains of Fly Gap.
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