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Entering Leming
from the north
on US HWY 281
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, May 2007 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Leming
was named after one P.B. Leming when the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf
Railroad arrived here in 1902.
1913 was a big year for the town. A school opened and the First Baptist
Church was organized. The following year the population was 150 and
the townspeople built a brick school. The population declined and
finally settled in at about 100 residents during the 30s. It increased
to 250 in the last years of that decade and remained there for the
next 50 years. It has added a few more people in recent years, bringing
it up to 268.
(For many years the communities of Las
Gallinas and Leming have been erroneously considered as one.
See A Town
is Born – Again:
Las Gallinas emerges from the Shadow of Leming) |
Train passing
south through Leming.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, May 2007 |
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