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Blue Town road
sign
Photo Courtesy Ken
Rudine, February 2006 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
The San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Railway came through the area
connecting Fernando with Santa Maria
in 1913. Bluetown was established in the early 1940s. The name is
said to have come from when the military was conducting war games
along the border. The army was divided into opposing sides of Red
and Blue. The "Blue Army" according to one sourse is said to have
had its headquarters near this site.
In 1945 Bluetown had a population of seventy-five in 1945 which increased
to 100 by 1950. In the early 1990s its population was still estimated
at forty. A colonia (also named Bluetown) developed during the 1960s,
and by 1976 it had an estimated population of 396. In 1986 estimated
population was 410. |
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