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BRUNI,
TEXAS
Webb County, South Texas
Highway 359
40 miles E of Laredo
Population:
412 (2000) 698 (1990)
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1940 Photo Courtesy Pablo Garcia |
History
in a Pecan shell
A timeline of significant events (mostly population
figures) in Bruni's history:
1860: The site was settled - no record available
on what the settlement was called at first
1877: Antonio Bruni, the town's
namesake arrived
1881: Bruni became a station on the Texas-Mexican Railway
1900: The Bruni post office was granted
1914: The community had a population
of sixty with a general store----
1939: the discovery of oil increased the
population to 800
1943: The population declined to 350
1964: The population
by this time had declined to 275
1972: The population was 214 and stayed at
that number until 1984 |
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