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History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally
called San José, it existed as a sleepy Mexican village until the 1880s
when a company started mining coal here. Chas. Wright, as president of the Cannal
Coal Company, built a railroad (The Rio Grande and Eagle Pass) to haul the coal
to market. The namesake for the renamed town was Wright’s daughter. A post office
was granted in 1913 and a headcount of residents the following years was said
to number 1,000.
The coal deposits played out in the early 1920s and by
1939 they had ceased operation. There were still enough residents to require a
school and in the mid 1930s the population was given as 20 where it remained for
decades. The post office closed in 1930. Today only two cemeteries and a few lonely
houses remain. |
Dolores,
Texas as seen on a 1920s Webb County Highway Map
(Below
"W" in "WEBB")
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
1907
Webb County Postal map
showing Laredo
and the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass RR
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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