Tidwell Prairie is an

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in Robertson County,

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, United States. Tidwell Prairie is eight miles northeast of Calvert. The community was founded after the

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by residents of Owensville; it was most likely named after Tidwell's Creek. Tidwell Prairie had two schools in 1942 and a church and a school in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Unincorporated communities in Robertson County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas Bryan–College Station {{RobertsonCountyTX-geo-stub