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History
in a Pecan Shell
Frederick Lueders fought in the Texas revolution
and was awarded land here as a bonus.
Early settlement began in 1877
with settler W. J. Herrington, but the Webb and Hill Land and Cattle Company started
serious development in 1899.
The Texas Central Railroad arrived in 1900
and a post office was granted two years later.
Stone quarries provided
building material and the town established cotton
gins early on.
The population was a very respectable 700 by 1915
and it slowly declined to just over 400 in the 1980s. Lueders economy is based
on livestock, horses, cotton and wheat. |
Downtown
Lueders
Photo courtesy Mike
Price, October 2007 |
Another
downtown street scene in Lueders
Photo courtesy Mike
Price, October 2007 |
Photographer's
Note:
Lueders Texas Downtown
qualifies as a ghost town as I don't remember an operating business. - Mike
Price, October, 2007 | |
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