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CONVERSE,
TEXAS Bexar
County, South Texas
FM 1976
13 Miles NE of Downtown San
Antonio
Population:
11,508 (2000) |
History
in a Pecan ShellMajor
Converse, chief engineer of the Southern Pacific Railroad is the towns namesake.
Converse purchased the land in the late 1870s and a post office opened by 1878.
Only
thirty people were reported in the mid 1880s. Ten years later the situation hadn’t
changed much, but the town did have the basic building blocks for growth (a saloon,
cotton gins and grocery). A predominately German settlement, its proximity to
San Antonio was both a blessing
and a curse.
At the end of WWII
the population was still less than 200, but grew to 900 by the mid 1960s. The
1990 census reported nearly 9,000 and in 2000 it had surpassed 11,000.
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