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History
in a Pecan Shell
Bounded on the S by Holcombe Boulvevard and surrounded
on the N, W and E by West University Place, Southside Place is an independent
municipality incorporated in 1934.
A post office opened sometime prior
to 1940 and the population for that year’s census was about 1,400. The largely
residential community declined in the late 1970s to a low of 1,263.
Southside
Place has a few businesses, its own fire and police department and as recently
as 2001, it maintained its own water system. The town has since removed the water
tower shown above. | |
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