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History in a Pecan
Shell
The town was once on the Southern Pacific Railroad and the lower
Devils River and very near the border with Mexico.
Founded as a station on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway in 1882,
Devil’s River once had a population estimated between 50 and 60.
But long
before (6,000 years before) the railroad, the area had been occupied by people
who left artifacts and rock paintings in the vicinity.
As a town, the new
railroad connection offered prosperity and as late as the 1940s an estimated 20
families lived here. When the Amistad Dam and Reservoir were built, the entire
town was flooded and is now underwater. | |
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