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Dime Box, TX, USA
 
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     Founded 1913. Name derived from the practice of leaving dimes in community mailbox on Old San Antonio Road in return for items from Giddings. Nation's first town to contribute one hundred per cent to March of Dimes program, 1945. Official national program opening held here in 1946.

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