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BOLING, TEXASWharton
County, Texas Gulf Coast
FM 1301 and FM 442
11 miles SE of Wharton
Not shown on most maps
Population 1,271 (2000)
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History in a Pecan
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Once known as Floyd's Lane, Boling was renamed after the New
York, Texas and Mexican Railway built through around 1900. The new name came from
the middle name of Mary Bolling Vineyard, daughter of the man who platted the
town. The name was misspelled when the post office was granted.
Although
new settlers arrived after the railroad was built - the region was mostly made
up of large tracts of land which had been former plantations. In 1907 Boling may
have had a railroad connection, but the population was less than fifty with only
the most basic businesses. That changed in the mid 1920s with the discovery of
the huge oil, gas and sulfur deposits of the Boling Dome. The boom wasn't as big
as the oil boomtowns of legend, but the population increased tenfold to nearly
500 by 1930 and reaching 800 during WWII.
In 1941 the Boling Independent
School District was formed of Boling and the neighboring communities of Iago
and Newgulf. The high school was in Boling, the
junior high in Iago, and the elementary school was in Newgulf.
The population
had dropped to a little over 500 in the early 1970s but by the early 90s it had
grown to nearly 1,300. The Newgulf sulfur plant closed in late 1993 and the population
for Boling-Iago was still 1,271 while Newgulf
joined the list of Texas ghost towns. |
Boling,
Texas ForumSubject:
Boling/ Iago and Newgulf
Dear
TE, I lived in Boling, Texas from 1952 - 1954 when I was about 10. There was no
elementary school in Boling so we were either bussed to Iago or New Gulf. I went
to Iago. At lunch time we were bussed to the high school in Boling. That was a
fun time in my life. I have often wondered what changes have taken place in the
last 50 years. My mother was a telephone operator in Boling and we actually (she
and I) lived in the back of the telephone office. - Alma (Hudson) Waggoner,
November 30, 2006
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