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Taft, Tx
just outside Aransas Pass (part of Corpus MSA)
3,396 people, 1,084 households, and 835 families*
Hispanic or Latino 67.02% of the population
Sinton, Tx5,676 people, 1,845 households, and 1,409 families
Hispanic or Latino 71.04% of the population
Town named after
David Sinton (1808 – 1900) – a pig iron industrialist who became one of America’s richest men. He was the majority owner of the
Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, one of the largest cattle companies and ranches ever. Sinton’s daughter, Anna, married
Pres. Taft’s half-brother Charles Taft
Sinton’s San Patricio County CourthouseSkidmore, Tx
1,013 people, 348 households, and 258 families
Hispanic or Latino 56% of the population
Tim, the tine man
Ray, was selling this goat ($60, 8mos old & ready to breed) & the chickens
Beeville, Tx
13,129 people, 4,697 households, and 3,287 families
Hispanic or Latino 68% of the population
Originally named Maryville in the 1830’s, renamed for Barnard E. Bee, Sr,
Secretary of State & Secretary of War, Republic of Texas
Kenedy, Tx
3,487 people, 1,266 households, and 907 families
Hispanic or Latino 65% of the population
named for Mifflin Kenedy, who bought acres and wanted to develop a new town that would carry his name. In the early 1900s many of Kenedy’s gunfighter’s shooting caused the town to be nicknamed “Six Shooter Junction.”
Stockdale, Tx
1,398 people, 497 households, and 337 families
Hispanic or Latino 46% of the population
Named after Fletcher Stockdale, the last governor of Texas under the Confederate
Christ United Methodist Church (Stockdale)Luling, Tx
5,080 people, 1,791 households, and 1,226 families
Hispanic or Latino 44% of the population
a shared contempt for the law is said to have given Luling the nickname “the toughest town in Texas,” part of the Chisholm Trail (cattle drive trail from Texas to Kansas)
Lockhart, Tx
11,615 people, 3,627 households, and 2,691 families
Hispanic or Latino 47% of the population
Lockhart was originally called Plum Creek but renamed i/h/o Byrd Lockhart, an assistant surveyor, reportedly the first Anglo to set foot in Caldwell County.
I’d planned to buy at City Market in Luling but it and Kreutz & Smitty’s (Lockhart) closed on Sunday – well Smitty’s closed at 3pmMustang Ridge, Tx
785 people, 256 households, and 214 families
Hispanic or Latino 48% of the population
I’ve long admired this house on hwy 183, between Lockhart and Austin
*demographic information from Wikipedia and cited as 2000 census statistics unless otherwise noted
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