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QUINCY,
TEXAS
Texas Ghost
Town
Bee County, South
Texas
Highway 202
7 miles E of Beeville
Population: 0
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History in
a Pecan Shell
The community was founded on the10,500-acre John Quincy ranch. After
being purchased in 1891, development began and a post office was
requested and granted.
Acreage was sold to settlers recruited from Kansas and other states.
A one-teacher school in 1898-99 taught only 13 pupils.
Under-development and a lack of settlers spelled oblivion, and so
the settlement was sold to a San Antonio business called the Bee
County Irrigation Syndicate. They tried to recruit new settlers,
but were unsuccessful and what few buildings comprised the town
either burned down or fell in. According to the Handbook of Texas
even into the early 1970s the former townsite was referred to as
"Little Quincy."
The only thing appearing near the former site is a cemetery marked
as Lost Boy Monument on TxDoT Bee County maps.
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