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History in a Pecan
Shell
Established as “The Motts” by English and German settlers
in the early 1850s, it was renamed after the Nueces River. A temporary post office
(1854-1855) was reestablished as a permanent one in 1859. In 1875 the town was
raided by Mexican bandits in what is known as “The Nuecestown Raid.”
In 1885 Nuecestown had a school with 32 students – considered one of the largest
in Nueces County. The preserved 1892 schoolhouse is now the largest reminder of
the town that once numbered 200 (1896)
The town went into a decline in
1905 after being bypassed by the St. Louis, Brownsville, and Mexico Railroad.
The post office closed in the late 1920s when the population was reported as 50.
Residents left as the city limits of Corpus
Christi grew closer and today it sits not far from fast food restaurants
– with only the cemetery and schoolhouse.
Nuecestown
Cemetery & Historical Marker
Nuecestown
Historical Marker
Nuecestown Raid Historical Marker
Nuecestown
Schoolhouse Markers |
Nuecestown
Cemetery & Historical MarkerPhotographer's
Note:
"The old
cemetery I'm sure was intended to be on a nice quiet hill over looking the town
area and Nueces River bottom but urban sprawl from Corpus Christi and Calallen
has overtaken it and the cemetery is bordered on the south by a busy Leopard Street
and just a few hundred yards north is interstate 37." -
Will
Beauchamp |
| "Beynon's
Headstone with tree in front & Taco Bell sign in the back ground. These were the
parent of 4 year old Elizabeth Beynon who was the first known person buried in
the cemetery." - Will
Beauchamp |
| "William
Ball - Survived being kidnapped during the 1875 raid by bandits, escaping to return
to Nuecestown." - Will
Beauchamp |
| "Side
view of Beynon's parents stone is Elizabeth's name. The parents died the next
year after her." Will
Beauchamp |
Nuecestown
Historical Marker &
Nuecestown Raid Historical MarkerThese
markers are located on Up River Road near the old townsite. |
The
1875 Nuecestown Raid Historical Marker
Photo Courtesy Will
Beauchamp |
Nuecestown
Schoolhouse Markers | |
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