gorman

Gorman is on State Highway 6 and Farm Road 8 on the southeastern edge of Eastland County. It grew out of the earlier community of Shinoak, which was renamed Gorman for Patrick Gorman, roadmaster of the Texas Central Railroad in 1889, when a new post office was granted. The first store was built by Dick Mason, and the town was incorporated on May 15, 1902, with H. T. (Tom) Hamrick as mayor. By 1904 Gorman had various stores, a hotel, a gin, a lumberyard, a canning factory, electric street lights, and a newspaper named the Gorman Ledger