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SODVILLE, TEXAS


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San Patricio County, Texas Gulf Coast

27° 58' 10" N, 97° 28' 23" W (27.969444, -97.473056)

FM 1074 and FM 1944
7 Miles S of Sinton the county seat
4 Miles W of Taft
NW of of Aransas Pass
NW of Corpus Christi
Population: Unknown

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Sodville TX FM1074
Photo courtesy William Beauchamp, June 2009

History in a Pecan Shell

Sodville dates from the early 1900s when local ranchs were subdivided into small farms and sold by the George H. Paul Land Company.

A school was built in 1908 that shared its space with a Union Sunday School.

The town gained a store by 1910 and the Sodville Baptist Church organized four years later.

A brick school was built in the late 1930s. At its peak, Sodville’s school district enrolled over 300 students before merging with Sinton’s schools after WWII.

In the early 1960s with its membership in decline, the Baptist Church disbanded. The population was reported under 50 residents in the 1980s and the town is now known as a dispersed rural community.


Photographer's Note:

Subject: Sodville, Texas
Located in San Patricio County, 3 miles West of Taft & about 6 miles SE of Sinton at the intersections of FM roads 1944 & 1074. A few homes & a couple of barns are all that's left to be seen. The landscape has changed greatly in the last couple of months as a large Windfarm has made it's home in the Sodville area. - William Beauchamp, June 2009

SodvilleTX Sodville Farmers Gin Co
Sodville Farmers Gin Co.
Vintage photo courtesy of the Taft Blackland Museum
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Sodville TX Historical Marker
Sodville Community Historical Marker
Photo courtesy William Beauchamp, June 2009
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Historical Marker:

Sodville Community

George H. Paul, a land developer from Iowa, joined forces with the giant Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company in 1907 and 1908 to sell 56,000 acres of land for a development. Mexican migrant laborers cleared the area of brush, which was so thick that prospective buyers had to mark their paths. Sodville was probably named for its fertile soil when the real estate agency was creating promotional literature for prospective buyers in the midwest. Land sold at a steady pace, and in 1908 there were enough children in the area to prompt T. F. Harwood to donate land on which to build the Sodville school.

By 1910 Mynier's store served the community. A Union church met in the schoolhouse, brush arbors and other locations. Hall Industries of Beeville bought Mynier's interest in the store and built two cotton gins in the area. The company later sold its interest in Sodville to W. A. Dunn, whose store and the corner on which it stood became community institutions. The Sodville Baptist Church organized in 1914 and the congregation met in its own building by 1916. In 1919-1920 T. F. Harwood donated more land to the school, and the Sodville Independent School District formed. By the 1930s Sodville had about 50 residents and three businesses; the roads were paved. A brick schoolhouse was erected in 1938.

As people left farms and rural areas for cities in the second half of the 20th century, the population of communities such as Sodville declined. The school district was consolidated with Sinton schools in 1947; Dunn's store closed in the mid-1950s. The Sodville Baptist Church disbanded in 1961. Dunn's corner, near this site, and a few homes were all that remained of the Sodville community at the end of the 20th century.
(2000)

TX San Patricio County 1920s Map
San Patricio County 1920s map showing Sinton and Taft
From Texas state map #10749
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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Sodville, Texas Nearby Towns:
Sinton the county seat
Ingleside
Aransas Pass
Corpus Christi
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