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History in
a Pecan Shell
Lodi was established sometime prior to 1832 by Don Francisco Flores
de Abrego. His home, chapel, and family cemetery became the core of
a community that became the Wilson County seat not once but twice.
It became the seat of Wilson County in 1867 but lost it to the more
prosperous Sutherland
Springs in early 1871. It regained the honor later the same year
and then lost it for good (to Floresville)
in 1873. Floresville had the railroad
(the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway) and Lodi did not. The community
did have a post office in operation from 1858 to 1872. A school was
open and operating in the mid 1890s with a respectable enrollment
of 154, but after 1900 in entered into a fatal tailspin and only ruins
were left by the end of the Great Depression. A historical marker
now denotes the former community. |
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