Spurlin, Texas · Placesmixed Spurlin is a ghost town in northwestern Hamilton County, Texas. It was laid out on the Stephenville North and South Texas Railway in 1908–1909 and named for its promoter, the Hamilton merchant John L. Spurlin. It had a church and a business in 1936 and had disappeared from maps by the late 1980s.
Spurlington Tunnel · Placesstrong The Spurlington Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel of about 1,900 feet through Muldraugh Hill near Spurlington, Kentucky. It was dug in the late 1860s and 1870s for the Lebanon–Greensburg line, which the Louisville and Nashville Railroad later operated.
Spurlington, Kentucky · Placesmixed Spurlington is a small rural community in Taylor County, Kentucky, northeast of Campbellsville. It was a railroad station with a post office from 1880 to 1958, and it is named for the Spurling family, whose John Spurling Sr. was its first postmaster.
Spurlins of Hamilton County, Texas · Historystrong John L. Spurlin (1853–1935), a Hamilton merchant, banker and railroad promoter and a nephew of John H. Reagan, was a founding director of the Hamilton National Bank in 1890 and gave his name to the railroad town of Spurlin in northwestern Hamilton County.