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History in
a Pecan Shell
Oklahoman oil speculator
J. L. Courtney, bought the land in 1917 but it wasn’t surveyed until
the late 1920s. Courtney had wanted to name the community Tulsa, but
that name was already in use (another oil town in Winkler
County - see Tulsa,
Texas) so he took the Spanish diminutive form and submitted it
on a post office application. Tulsita (Little Tulsa) was born.
Growth was hampered by The Great Depression and WWII.
By the late 1950s only fifty people called Tulsita home – a number
that would be halved in the next ten years.
The 1990 census counted twenty-five residents which dropped to a mere
twenty for the 2000 count. |
Bee County map
showing Tulsita
Modification of Texas General Land Office 1920s map |
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