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History in
a Pecan Shell
S. P. Brundage
platted the town in 1909, and the community grew quickly after it
became a stop on the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad around
1910, the year it was granted a post office. The settlement shipped
onions, strawberries, and other crops. By 1915 Brundage had over 100
residents, two stores and a telephone connection.
An extended drought drove many Dimmit
and La Salle County
farmers off their land by the late teens.
By 1925 the population was down to fifty.
In 1936 the community still had a depot and a post office, one business,
and a cluster of houses.
In 1944 the post office closed, and by 1953 the school had been consolidated
with Big Wells.
By the mid-1980s the old school building (c. 1918) had been converted
into a restaurant but nothing else remained except a cemetery and
a few dwellings. |
1920s map showing
Brundage in northern Dimmit
County
From Texas state map #10749
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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