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History on a Pinhead
On the tracks of the International-Great Northern Railroad.
Wetmore arrived
with the building of the Houston and Great Northern Railroad in 1890. Railroad
official Jacob S. Wetmore is the town’s namesake.
A post office opened
in 1890, and a town started forming around it. The population had reached 25 by
1914 and in 1920 the town was busting at the seams with 50 residents. Prior to
the U.S. entry into WWII,
Wetmore’s population had reached 150. The town was still identified as a separate
town as late as 1985 when there were 175 people living here It has since been
absorbed by encroaching San Antonio
and doesn’t appear on modern maps. | |
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