Stranger, Texas

Stranger is an unincorporated community just north of Highway 7, and ten miles from Marlin[2] in eastern Falls County, Texas, United States.

Stranger first started to grow after the Civil War, being granted a post office in 1879.

The most accepted story of how Stranger derived its name was when a local blacksmith was asked what the name of the town was.

Four churches called the place home, as did a school, steam cotton gin, corn mill and a hotel.

By the 1940s, only one business was remaining in Stranger, and only half of the 107 people who were there forty years before.

Falls County map