Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Old Ghost Towns - Post Office:



Moorhead
  Moorhead was located south of Fairfield and southeast of Cotton Gin. Moorhead
has on the road from Fairfield to Centerville, Leon County, Texas.  At the time
Alexander C. Moorhead was requesting the post office in 1869, Samuel W. Moorhead 
was postmaster in Fairfield. *2* However by 1871, Sam was replaced by James King. *1*
  Apparently Samuel W. Moorhead did such a bad job of being postmaster that the 
Houston Telegraph newspaper put on its front page, the new postmaster - J. B. 
Buchanan's account of why he had to replace him.  *3*

Moorhead Post Office: 
22 Mar 1869 to 14 Jun 1871


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Known Former Moorhead Residents:
Moorhead, Alexander C. 


MOORHEAD SOURCES:
*1* = The Texas Almanac for 1871, and Emigrant's Guide to Texas. Page: 249 

POST OFFICES IN TEXAS

        FREESTONE COUNTY
      Butler................J. Fleming
      Cotton Gin............R. H. Roark
      Fairfield (C.H.)......James King
      Moorhead..............A. C. Moorhead

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*2* = The Texas Almanac for 1870, and Emigrant's Guide to Texas Page: 218

POST OFFICES IN TEXAS
      Moorhead.....Freestone......A. C. Moorhead

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*3* = The Houston Telegraph (of Houston, Tex.), Thursday, November 25, 1869 Page: 1

  On the 31st ult., I received my commission from the Postmaster General of the
United States, as Postmaster at Fairfield, Texas. On the 1st day of November I
called on Samuel W. Moorhead and presented him with my authority to take possession
of the office, and he turned it over to me in the afternoon of that day. Upon
examination of the office I found the mail matter in a perfect state of chaos;
there were about six hundred letters in the office, which had been mailed there 
from one to four months, and many of them broken open; some much longer, and a 
large amount of them scattered promisuously over the office. The mail matter
which had been received here was very much in the same condition.
      J. B. BUCHANAN
    P. M. at Farifield, Texas
   - Ledger