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Entering
Leming from the north on US HWY 281.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, May 2007 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Leming was named after one P.B. Leming when
the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad arrived here in 1902.
1913
was a big year for the town. A school opened and the First Baptist Church was
organized. The following year the population was 150 and the townspeople built
a brick school. The population declined and finally settled in at about 100 residents
during the 30s. It increased to 250 in the last years of that decade and remained
there for the next 50 years. It has added a few more people in recent years, bringing
it up to 268.
(For many years the communities of Las
Gallinas and Leming have been erroneously considered as one. See A
Town is Born – Again:
Las Gallinas emerges from the Shadow of Leming)
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Train
passing south through Leming.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, May 2007 | |
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