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GRANJEÑO,
TEXAS
Hidalgo County,
South
Texas
FM 494 and the Old Military Telegraph Road
4 Miles S of McAllen
Population: 313 (2000)
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History in
a Pecan Shell
The Granjeño Cemetery dates from 1872 and is the only witness to Granjeño’s
early years. In the 1930s there were a cluster of residences, although
the proximity to McAllen
quashed any hopes of growth (had there been any). In the late 1940s
there was a church here as well as a school. A colonia developed at
the site in the 1960s, providing new residents to bring the population
up to 545 by the mid 1970s, decreasing to 450 by the mid 1980s and
declining to just 313 for the 2000 census. |
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