Phelan, Texas
Phelan is a ghost town in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located 2 miles north of Bastrop near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 157 (Sayers Road) and Farm to Market Road 36 A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ... (Phelan Road). It is on private property. History The town was founded in 1903, when John C. Phelan established the Independence Mining Company of Fort Worth to develop a lignite coal property in Bastrop County. The new mining community was likely named after Phelan. In 1905, the town was granted a request for a post office. John Phelan served as one of the first postmasters. A school was constructed in 1910 for children of the mostly Mexican miners who worked at the colliery. By 1914, Phelan had a general store and a population of ...
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Phelan Cemetery, Bastrop County, Texas
* Phelan, California, a US unincorporated town *Phelan (surname) Phelan is an Irish surname, one of the two most common anglicisations (the other being Whelan) of the Irish surname Ó Faoláin (which comes from the Irish for "wolf"). The name is commonly seen in the south-east of Ireland, particularly counties ...