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WRIGHTSBORO,
TEXAS
Gonzales County,
Central Texas S
FM 108
12 Miles SW of Gonzales
Population 76 (estimated)
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The
Wrightsboro Cemetery
Photo courtesy Jim & Lou Kinsey, April 2005 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Named after early settler L.C. Wright in 1851, the post office opened
under the spelling of Wrightsborough in 1869. The name was abbreviated
in the 1870s. A store opened in 1875 and nine years later 70 people
called the place home. In 1889 a hotel and a Masonic hall were in
operation. Children were taught at various locations until a proper
school was constructed in the early 1900s. The population was around
100 in the 1920s, with no reports for the 30s. The Wrightsboro school
consolidated with Gonzales' ISD in 1947.
The community can now be described as 'dispersed' although it maintains
a population of seventy-six according to the state highway map. |
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The distinctive former post office of Wrightsboro
Photo courtesy Jim & Lou Kinsey, April 2005 |
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Wrightsboro's tight (but indistinct) new "modular" post office
Photo courtesy Jim & Lou Kinsey, April 2005 |
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