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WESER,
TEXASGoliad County,
South Texas
Highway 183
14 Miles N of Goliad
Population: Estimated
at 50 (1990) |
History in a Pecan
Shell
The community was founded in the early 1880s and named after
the ship that carried Texas’ first Polish immigrants to Galveston
in 1854. A post office opened in 1881 and the town was connected by stage to neighboring
Cuero and Goliad.
In the 1890s the town had most essential businesses and a population of 150.
A
school was built in 1903 but without a railroad connection, Weser’s future looked
bleak. With the decline in cotton prices in
the 1920s, the town entered into a decline with the post office closing in 1928.
By the early 1930s Weser was reduced to a single business and the population to
a mere 50. That same figure has been in use ever since. | |
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