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History
in a Pecan Shell
First settlers moved into the area prior to the
Civil War and later a small community named Brewer sprang up. Things got
going in 1906 when the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway arrived. The railroad
built a machine shop here and did repairs on their cars here. The town was renamed
after Betty Teague, a niece of railroad magnate B. F. Yoakum.
The railroad
influence is still felt today with a notable presence of BNSF and the old railroad
depot museum - including the nearby Hotel Teague - a vacant ruin with some nice
brickwork.
As a shipping center for local cotton
farmers, Teague prospered. By 1914 it had population of 3,300 - which rivaled
many county seats in Texas at that time. Teague had electric lights, a waterworks,
an ice factory, three banks, two gins, a cottonseed oil mill, three newspapers
-a daily and two weeklies. Teague, like most of Texas, prospered through the 20's
- right up until the Great Depression.
Cotton
bottomed out and the population melted away. From 140 businesses in 1931, there
were only 100 five years later.
With the increased mobility after WWII
more people left and more businesses went under. In 1975 the population was still
a respectable 2,800. By 1990 the population was back to 1914 figures of over 3,200
and it has inceased further to over 4, 500. |
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The
Railroad Depot in the early 1900s
Pphoto courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
City
Drug Store & Davis Building on 4th Avenue, early 1900s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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Teague
Texas ForumSubject:
Jack Ellis Scott
My name is Sam Scott. My father
lived in Teague and I assume went to Teague High School. He passed away when I
was 11. I never had the opportunity to talk to my father about his childhood and
growing up in Teague. He always worked out of town and we lived in Jonesville,
Virginia. I have tried, through the school to get information about high school
annuals but because he probably attended school in the 1920s It's hard to find
those years. If you have any information about a place where I could get or look
at an annual I would really appreciate an e-mail from you. If It helps My grandfather
was Samuel J Scott, my grandmother was Mary Ethel Scott. I was told as a child
that my grandfather was the road commissioner for the county. Thanks. Sam Scott,
June 19, 2006, E-mail: ps49@verizon.net
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