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History in a Pecan
Shell
Earliest entries for settlement are from the 1850s when William
L. Cazneau established his Cazneau Ranch here. The name was changed in 1880 with
the establishment of a post office (which closed by 1884). The post office was
10 miles south of the current El Indio. The community was also known as Presidio
or Indio Ranch and had a reported population of 30 in the mid 1880s.
Indio
Ranch became a footnote in the 1910 Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero attempted
to unseat dictator Porfirio Díaz.
In the late 1920s, the 20,000 acre Indio
was platted into small farmsteads in hopes of exploiting the still-under-construction
irrigation system. |
Irrigation
canal near Eagle Pass
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
A highway was paved
to connect Eagle Pass with Laredo
in the 1930s. This was to become FM 1021. The road divided and delineated the
town. Finally, in early 1938, the irrigation canals were completed and a new post
office opened soon after.
The population prior to WWII
was still a mere 75 residents. This grew to almost 400 the mid 1950s and peaked
at 380 in the mid 1960s. It has since decreased to the present (2000) 263.
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