Coca Cola Sign - Service Station - Stony, TX
N 33° 13.681 W 097° 21.228
14S E 653392 N 3677773
A weathered Coca Cola sign is up high on the front of the old service station, one of just a few buildings that survives in Stony, TX. It is located on the west side of FM 2622, as you approach the Old Stony Road.
Waymark Code: WMRC20
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/06/2016
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The sign is red, rectangular in shape, and trimmed in green, showing a young lady about to enjoy a nice, cold, bottle of Coca Cola, along with "Drink Coca Cola".
Please note that the old station is on private property. You can get good pictures from behind the fence. The Handbook of Texas provides some background (and some stories indicate that the town was named for a gent by the name of Stony McSpadden): (
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Stony is on Farm Road 2622 two miles east of the Wise county line and ten miles west of Denton in far west Denton County. It was settled in the late 1850s and was named for the stony area in which it was located. Its population never exceeded fifty, probably due to the emergence of Justin, eight miles southwest, as a shipping point for area farmers. Stony had a post office from 1879 to 1918. In 1884 it had a mill, a gin, four churches, two schools, and a population estimated at 130. By 1890 the population had dropped to fifty. In 1914 the town had 100 residents, a doctor, a blacksmith, and at least two stores. From 1933 to 2000 its population was estimated at twenty-five. In 2004 a school building dating back to 1884 still stood in the community, and a restored 1839 log cabin, located nearby, was open to the public as local museum.