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Tanglewood's
name, according to Lee County legend, comes from Tanglewood Tales
- a book that was read by two local girls. How they convinced
the town to adopt the name is anyone's guess.
The Reverend
Hugh Wilson is credited with creating the first settlement here
prior to the Civil War about the year 1856. The settlement
got their own post office in 1880 and when the San Antonio and
Aransas Pass Railroad came through the area, it demonstrated
it's inflexibility by not bending the one mile it would've taken
to include the town on it's line. Tanglewood followed the familiar
script and moved to the tracks rather than die.
The heyday of Tanglewood seemed to be right before WWI when
the population was estimated at 100 Tanglewooders. By 1950 this
number was reduced to only 40. The census of 1990 showed 48 people
lived in Tanglewood.
We are told
that there are some rotting timbers one mile east of Highway 77,
which were once part of Old Tanglewood.
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