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History in
a Pecan Shell
Named to honor
one John Tynan, the town was nothing but a few ranches before the
arrival of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway in 1888.
In 1906 the town was platted and the post office opened in 1911 -
a short time before the town's first store opened for business. The
town's first cotton gin was destroyed by fire in 1916, and when a
new gin was built to replace it - it was a cooperative called the
Tynan Gin Company.
In 1915 the Bank of Tynan opened, but it closed as a result of the
Great Depression. A schoolhouse was built in 1916. During the late
1940s the two neighboring towns consolidated their schools into the
Skidmore-Tynan school district. The population was only 212 in the
late forties, and it remained at about that level ever since. |
Old gas pumps
TE photo, 2006 |
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