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Little
Zion Church NE of Harwood
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson December 2006 |
History in a Pecan
Shell
The town came into being as the Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railroad moved west in the 1870s. The town’s namesake was Gonzales
lawyer Thomas Moore Harwood. First named Mule Creek, after a local watercourse,
a post office operated from 1872 through 1874 under that name on the Gonzales
to Lockhart stage route (just west
of the present location). When the railroad arrived, the new post office opened
in the new town under it’s new name.
With 300 residents by 1915, Harwood
became a respectable town with most essential business. With the railroad and
two cotton gins, Harwood became a center of cotton
processing and shipping.
Postwar highway improvements allowed people to
leave the town for better paying jobs and a slow decline set in – reducing the
population to 112 for the 1990 census.
Harwood,
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Little Zion Church NE of Harwood
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