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Shepton, the general store town that Plano swallowed
Plano, Texas
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Joseph W. Shepard opened a general store on this prairie around 1890 and the settlement took a shortened version of his name. Shepton kept a post office from 1894 to 1903, then steadily lost its residents to Plano a few miles east. Plano's growth absorbed the last of the townsite by the 1980s and only a high school still carries the name.
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