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San
Gabriel Schoolhouse
Photo courtesy Vicki Harris, May 2013 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
San Gabriel came into being in the mid 1840s when cabins
were constructed along the banks of the San
Gabriel River by Peter and Jesse Mercer.
A post office was applied for and granted in 1850. The town had a
respectable population of 130 citizens in the mid 1880s when the town
could boast of their steam powered grist mill / cotton gin.
Inexplicitly, the 1890 census counted a mere twenty-five people in
San Gabrial. It peaked in 1929 with a population of 250.
After suffering through the Great Depression and WWII,
post war prosperity lured people away and by the late 1950 there was
an estimated 75 residents.
In 1960 San Gabriel lost its school in a merger with nearby Thorndale
and by the end of that decade the post office
had closed.
The population was given as 100 for both the1990 and 2000 census.
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| Photo
courtesy Vicki Harris, May 2013 |
| Photo
courtesy Vicki Harris, May 2013 |
Photographer's
Note
Subject: San Gabriel
"On a recent bike trip, my husband and I stopped by and took
some pictures of the old school. Thought you might like them for
your site before the building crumbles." - Vicki Harris, May
31, 2013
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