Long before Aledo was a quiet Texas town, it was just open prairie where a group of settlers formed a farming community known as Parker’s Station. In the 1879s, when the Texas & Pacific Railway pushed westward it gave birth to a community.
In 1882, the U.S. Post Office required the town to choose a distinct name to avoid 'mail mix-ups' with Parker County. At the suggestion of a Texas & Pacific Railroad official, the community officially became Aledo, named after his hometown of Aledo, Illinois. The Aledo post office was established that same year, making 1882 a defining moment in the city’s history and the reason the year is featured in the city’s logo.
As you search for this cache, imagine the sound of steam engines and the grit of early workers laying iron across the land. Without the railroad, Aledo might never have existed.
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