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Cemetery
TE Photo, December 2009 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Settled in the
1860s, the first German Baptist Church in Texas was organized here
in 1861. A nearby community named Vinegrove was declining as
Greenvine’s star was ascending and since Greenvine was forsighted
enough to apply for a post office, residents of Vinegrove moved to
Greenvine.
In 1879 William Seidel, a farmer, discovered natural gas on his property
and was the first person in Texas to use it as fuel. A historic marker
in Greenvine attests to that event. Greenvine’s economy was based
on cotton. The population reached
300 by the early 1880s. By the mid 1880s Greenvine had a school and
a justice of the peace.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church was organized in 1884 but by 1890 the population
had declined by half. It did recover somewhat, however with the arrival
of the Great Depression, it was lowered to 100.
The school merged with Burton’s
in 1943 and by the end of that decade only a gin and store were in
operation. In 2010, the community is marked by two cemeteries, two
churches and one defunct restaurant/ store. |
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