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Railroad crew founds Valentine, Texas
On this day in 1882, the town of Valentine, Texas, was founded and named
when a Southern Pacific Railroad crew building east from El Paso reached
the site. Valentine, in Jeff Davis County, is thirty-six miles west of
Fort Davis. The trains started running in 1883, and Valentine got a post
office in 1886. The town became a shipping point for local cattle
ranchers, and by 1914 it had an estimated population of 500, five cattle
breeders, a news company, a real estate office, a grocery store, a
restaurant, and the Valentine Business Club. By the late 1990s, however,
the estimated population had dropped to 267.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- VALENTINE, TX
- SOUTHERN PACIFIC SYSTEM
- JEFF DAVIS COUNTY
- FORT DAVIS, TX
- LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TEXAS
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Spanish nobleman calls for settlement of Texas (1729)
- Philanthropists wed on Valentine's Day (1904)
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