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GUY, TEXAS
Fort Bend County,
Gulf Coast
Highway 36 and FM 1994
18 Miles S of Richmond
Population 60 (2000)
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courtesy Ken Rudine, July 2007 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Philip F. Ward is credited with being the town's first settler. The
town was formed in the first half of the 1890s. A school was opened
in 1897 and the post office opened the next year. The town's namesake
was the postmaster's daughter, Una Guy Rowland.
The town was barely getting it's feet on the ground when it was dealt
a severe blow by the 1900
Galveston Storm.
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway laid its tracks
two miles southwest of the post office in 1918, and businesses and
the school moved, creating an Old Guy and a "New" Guy. Highway 36
was completed between Old Guy and Guy in 1932.
Residents of Guy found work at the nearby Damon Mound salt dome, but
as late as 1940 there were still only 200 residents. Guy's schools
merged with those of Needville in
the late 1940s which led to a decline in population. By the mid 1960s
there were only 100 residents which reached 60 by the 2000 census.
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courtesy Ken Rudine, July 2007 |
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