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WINTERS,
TEXASRunnels County,
Panhandle / West Texas
Highway 83, FM 1770 and 53
41 miles S of Abilene
16
miles N of Ballinger
52 miles
NE of San Angelo
Population:
2,880
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History in a Pecan
Shell
John N. Winters, a local rancher is the town's namesake. The
original location was about a mile SE of present Winters, and was originally called
Bluff Creek Valley. The Curry and Bell families are credited with being the towns
first settlers - arriving around 1880.
A post office was granted in 1891
and John Winters donated the land for a school. In 1892 there were 163 Winterites.
Winters became famous for a travelling brass band that had been organized there
in 1901. The first newspaper was the Recorder (1903) which underwent a
name change to the Winters Enterprise in 1905. By 1910 the population of
Winters was just over 1,200.
In 1909, the Abilene and Southern Railway
laid tracks from Abilene to Winters
and the town incorporated that same year. The town received a public library in
1964. The population reached 3,061 in 1980 and it was 2,905 in 1990. It remains
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