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Krum is northwest of Denton in west-central Denton County on Farm Road 1173 7 miles (11 km). In 1884, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway were running a line across western Denton County. Mr. L.L. Finley sold 200 acres (0.81 km2) off his farm's southern end to the railroad for a city site in the fall of 1886. Building a business community in Krum started with this. The company purchased 200 acres (0.81 km2), plated a town site, and named the community as a railway official for one of its employees, Charles K. Krum. On the lot now owned by the Harpool Seed Company, Mr. Finley opened a general merchandise store in the new town. The Santa Fe was moving to serve as a depot in a boxcar. The depot and section house were completed by 1887 and the railway had built their agent's first house in Krum. It was built on the site later called Knight's Bee and Chicken Farm east of the railroad. The Post Office arrived in 1888 and was housed with Mr. Finley handling the mail for the first time in the Finley store. By R.R. 1888 Turner started a blacksmith shop on the main street's south side and Amos Rowley had a north side saloon. R.C. R.C. Scripture sold hardware, harness, clothing, and other commodities from a big store where the bank is now standing. Dr. W.G. Kimbrough opened a drugstore in 1891 and started medicine practice. Arthur Jackson established a lumber yard where one remained open until the last few years. The office faced the south side of the main street. On the east side, John Boyd opened a barbershop. In 1891, the one-room schoolhouse was moved from North Hickory Creek and placed on the ground where the current high school is located. It continued to be used by the Methodist congregation as their meeting house. The school organized and met the Literary and Debating Society. All the youth in the area have joined. Also in that year, a young bachelor, W.H., built the second house in Krum. Henshel, you know. In 1894, McGee opened a hardware and feed store on the south side of the business street next door to the west side of the lumberyard office. He built his family's third house in Krum. Mr. McGee provided a watering trough for farmers ' teams at a well behind his store to perform a public service. Walter and Wallace, the sons of Dr. W.H. Kimbrough, completed their medical education at the University of Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee and joined their father in Krum. The telephone and telegraph arrived by 1899. The Baptist congregation had moved their church building from North Hickory Creek to the city, and that year the members of Christ's church built their meeting house. In addition to other already established businesses, June Benton had a livery stable that covered all the lots from the current Muncy Building to the washateria and was busy renting buggies and teams. Frank Shifflett and Brent Jackson owned a car yard adjacent to the north livery stable. There was a gin of cotton, a restaurant, a house on the short order, and a freight on the dry line. It's W.T. In the early 1890s, Ginn had built a hotel. It later became owned for many years by the Butterworths, then by the Chitwoods, and finally by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ericson. Recently, the spacious old house was demolished and the lots sold. S.D., 1898. On three lots, Chadwell built a fine hotel, now a brick building occupied by Kountry Store, Krum Korral, and Fowler Hardware. The hotel was a wooden one-story building surrounded by a white picket fence. Stables, a cow shed, a coalhouse and other necessary outdoor facilities were facing the alley in the back. Inside, an elegant turkey-red carpet covered the floors, which was the countryside talk. There were rooms to show off their merchandise to "drummers," and merchants came to buy from miles around. Unfortunately, fire destroyed this asset to the community and it was not rebuilt. A brick building built in 1976 and occupied by Kountry Store, Krum Korral and Fowler Hardware would eventually take over the site. In 1892, the community reported a population of 75 and it thrived by 1900, with a number of businesses, four churches, and a school. The railroad also shipped at least half a million bushels of wheat in 1900, claiming that Krum was "the world's largest inland grain market." In 1905, the Flour Mill and Elevator Company and three other elevator companies operated in the community. The mill was burned in 1915, and the remaining elevators were eventually closed by changing storage and marketing practices. Growth and prosperity of Krum continued until around 1925, when it reached 750 people. The community declined as cars and trucks started trading to larger markets and as young people left for college or town jobs. With the Great Depression years, the population level of the city fell below 300, then remained low in the post-World War II period, ranging from 300 to 400 until the 1970s, when the sprawl of the northward metropolitan area of Dallas-Fort Worth brought increasing numbers of suburban homosexuals. Access from Krum to Interstate Highway 35 made it convenient to travel to city jobs, and by 1978 the population of the community increased to 605, by 1982 to 917, and by 1990 to 1,542. The population in 2000 was 1,979.