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YANCEY,
TEXASMedina
County, Texas Hill Country
FM 462 and FM 2200
14 Miles S of Hondo
19 Miles SE of D'Hanis
46 Mile SW of San
Antonio
Population 202 (2000)
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Former
Yancey School
TE photo, March 2007 |
History in a Pecan
Shell
Once known as Tehuacana and also as Moss, Texas, it was named
for not one, but two youngs men with the first name of Yancey. Yancey Strait and
Yancey Kilgore were sons of prominent land owners. A post office was granted in
1897 and the town consisted of little more than school store, cotton gin and post
office.
The area had three separate schools (Community School, Styles,
and Tehuacana) before they merged in 1912. The mostly German-American population
was 350 in 1914 and the town was once noted for it's watermelons, peaches and
plums.
In the mid-1920s Yancy was primarily comprised of the school, residences
and two churches. The population remained at 275 in the early 1960s but declined
to just over 202 in the late 1980s. The population on the state map in 2007 shows
202. |
Yancey
United Methodist Church
TE photo, March 2007 |
Yancey
former schools
TE photo, March 2007 |
Yancey
High School cornerstone
TE photo, March 2007 | |
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