Dillon is a ghost town in Hopkins County, Texas, United States, located 30 miles east of Miller Grove, near Saltillo. The town was named after E. F. Dillon, who started operating the post office in his store in 1901. The post office closed in 1906, and in the mid-1930s the town disappeared from highway maps.[1]
In popular culture
editDillon shares a name with the fictionalized setting of Friday Night Lights. The series was filmed around Austin.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Texas State Historical Association. "Dillon, TX". The Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved February 14, 2008.
- ^ "Use This Interactive Map of Friday Night Lights' Austin, Texas, Shooting Locations". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ Booth, Jessica. "20 surprising things you probably didn't know about 'Friday Night Lights'". Insider. Retrieved 2020-11-26.