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Wheelock is an unincorporated community in Robertson County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is also part of the Bryan-College Station Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was founded in 1823 by Col. Eleazer Louis Ripley Wheelock, who then moved to the state in 1833, and the townsite was platted a year after. He originally planned to name the area Lamar, but in 1837, the name Wheelock was selected, after the town of Wheelock in Vermont. Wheelock immediately grew as a cotton-farming and cattle-ranching community; it became one of the prominent towns in Central Texas. The Civil War, along with the avoidance of the railroad expansion declined the town and its townsmen; most of the residents moved to Hearne, which was named after one of the residents who donated land for a rail station to be built in that town. Although the community had its post office in 1947, the number of residents remained to be relatively small. As of 2000, it has a population of 225.

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