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Some of the remaining
businesses along the railroad tracks in Thelma.
Photo
courtesy Terry
Jeanson, January, 2009
See Texas Railroads | Texas Towns |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Thelma was established
around 1900 with a post office being granted six years later. The
San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad arrived six years after that
and Thelma was made a stop.
From a population of 300 in 1914, it declined to just 25 people by
1940 and in the early 1990s it was designated “a dispersed rural community.”
Forty-five people were enumerated for the 2000 Census, insuring that
Thelma is still remembered for now. |
1907 postal
map showing Thelma in southern Bexar
County
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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