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Proudly presents W.J. Kasten general Merchandise
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Courtesy
Regugio County Museum, submitted by William
Beauchamp |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Planned by northern developers around 1906, the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
Railroad arrived later that same year.
By February of 1907 the town had
a two-story frame hotel to accommodate prospective buyers and a post office was
opened in the hotel for the obvious convenience.
Captain Tobias D. Wood,
who sold his ranch to the developers was honored by having his name on the postal
application.
The town was promoted in the Midwest and all across Texas.
A school was built by 1908 and the community enjoyed all the basic businesses,
including a newspaper which started publishing in 1910.
The town was
electrified around 1913 and by 1914 the population had increased to 500 – a respectable
figure. By the mid 1920s, the population was 450 but when oil was discovered in
the area in 1928, a minor boom erupted.
By 1930 there were 1,286 residents
– but not all were permanent. By 1941 Woodsboro had 1,426 citizens and by 1990
it had increased to 1,731. It has since declined slightly to the current 1,685.
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Pool Hall and Players.
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Courtesy Regugio County
Museum, submitted by William
Beauchamp |
Historical
Marker TextWoodsboro
SquareA land development
project of W. C. Johnson and George P. Pugh of Danville, Illinois, this town along
the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway was laid out in late 1906. A post
office was established in the Bonnie View Land Company Hotel in 1907, and the
town was named for Captain Tobias D. Wood, who had sold his Bonnie View Ranch
to Johnson and Pugh. A public square was included in the official town plat in
1908 and it became the center of the economic growth and civic enterprises that
characterized the early development of Woodsboro. The Woodsboro Commercial Club
was founded in 1914. Among its more lasting contributions was a waterworks installed
in the town square. The town was incorporated in 1929. The plaza remains a center
for civic activities in Woodsboro.
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Woodsboro
Ice House
TE photo, 2001 |
Another
view of the Ice House
TE photo, 2001 | |
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