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The
old Gregory depot
Photo courtesy Ken Rudine, May 2007 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
The Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company and the San Antonio
and Aransas Pass Railway partnered to build the town - which was named after U.S.
attorney general Thomas Watt Gregory. The location was to be the point on the
railroad where the rails split to go to Corpus
Christi.
1887: A post office was granted
1890: First settler
- J. S. M. McKamey, bought a two-mile-square block of land north of Gregory
1891: Coleman-Fulton gave land and built the first schoolhouse
1892: Population
reaches 250
1898: Coleman-Fulton moves headquarters to Gregory
1900: McKamey
opened a bank.
1909: Hotel Green is built - one of the finest hotels on the
coast. President Taft visits the Coleman Fulton Ranch.
1920s: Gregory declined
when company offices move to Taft. The hotel moved to Taft in 1922. |
Don
Williams
Gregory high school (now part of Portland-Gregory ISD) is where country music
legend Don Williams went to school. Williams was raised here and sings about his
childhood there in the song Good ol' Boys Like Me."The smell of cape jasmine
through the window screen. I can still hear the soft southern winds in the live
oak trees."
Gregory is located near the Live Oak Peninsula, an area of
the Texas Gulf Coast with an abundance of Live Oak trees. - Ken Rudine
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Gregory
Scenes & Historical Marker |
| An
old Texaco station. TE photo, 1999 |
| Photo
courtesy Ken Rudine, May 2007 |
| Photo
courtesy Ken Rudine, May 2007 | |
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