The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusDublin is a city located in southwestern Erath County in Central Texas, United States. Its population was 3,359 at the 2020 census, down from 3,654 at the 2010 census. The town is the former home of the world's oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant (see Dublin Dr Pepper). The plant was for many years the only U.S. source for Dr Pepper made with real cane sugar (from Texas-based Imperial Sugar), instead of less expensive high-fructose corn syrup. Contractual requirements limited the plant's distribution range to a 40-mile (64 km) radius of Dublin, an area encompassing Stephenville, Tolar, Comanche, and Hico. Dublin was the southern terminus of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, one of the pr…
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 3,654 to 3,359 (-8%). Half of its homes were built before 1973.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dublin yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Dublin’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dublin’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Dublin, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Dublin is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Dublin has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Wyatt-Hickie Ranch Complex in Stephenville, 11.6 miles away.
Dublin and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.