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Argenta,
TexasPhotographer's
Note:
Argenta is
in the SE corner of Live Oak County & near the Bee & San Patricio County lines.
Just north of Mathis and
SSE of Beeville, TX. Farming & Ranching
Community with scattered residences. - Will
Beauchamp, November 07, 2008
History in a
Pecan Shell
Argenta dates from 1903 when Oklahoman Richard B. Bomar
relocated here and improved the land. He wrote to the folks back home, describing
the area and before long a community formed. The original post office dates from
1907 when it opened under the name of Ego, Texas. Perhaps fearful of becoming
known as Egoists, the townspeople renamed their town Argenta (no explanation available)
in 1910.
The population in the mid 1920s was estimated at 50 and the residents
were engaged in farming cotton, their livelihood
back in Oklahoma. Despite the “importation” of a gin from Oklahoma, declining
prices and the boll weevil
depressed the cotton market and the town declined
accordingly. The post office closed in ’26 and the town’s store closed the following
year.
By 1940 very little was left. The school merged with those in Mathis
in 1945 and today is used as a community center. |
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