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“It was named after the family owning the railroad, not the founding first settler, of course,” Eastham noted. “Historian Maxwell felt it should have been named Eastham but historians don’t build cities while railroad magnates did get them built.”
Bob Ridley’s wife, Mollie was the first post mistress of Davis. And by 1895, the town boasted a population of 3,000 and 600 dwellings.
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