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History in
a Pecan Shell
J.M. Bennett with Ike and Sol West founded a Hereford and Brahman
cattle ranch here in the mid 1870s. The Livestock was shipped from
Inez, Texas until the railroad reached
the Bennett/ West holdings. The new station had been originally named
Benwest, but when the West Brothers bowed out of the business in 1922,
the station was renamed Bennview. Poles and Czechs were lured into
investing in the planed town in the mid 1920s when Bennett sold off
land to settlers. A post office named Bennview was open from 1928-1930.
The name was changed to La Salle in the late 30s and by 1941 the population
was 60. Thirty years later it was still just 103. In 1988 residents
numbered just 75 and the state map shows an estimate of 67 in 2007. |
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