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NURSERY,
TEXASVictoria
County, Texas
Gulf Coast
Near Coleto Creek Reservoir on unnurmbered county roads
Highway 87
10 Miles NW of Victoria
Population: 106
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A Visit to Nursery,
TexasPhotographer’s
Notes:
The Methodist
fellowship hall looks to be perhaps an old school. The main drag with Nursery’s
former businesses is pretty much gone now and a new four lane highway (83) has
taken it's place. -
William
Beauchamp, May 2009
History in a Pecan
Shell
Gilbert Onderdonk, early
horticulturist established a nursery here in 1883 along the tracks of the San
Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railway. The townsite had been part of a huge tract that
had belonged to Silvestre De León, son of empresario Martín De León.
A
post office opened in 1884 and Onderdonk
served as postmaster. The population of Nursery largely depended on which season
and how many workers Mr. Onderdonk needed.
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