May 25, 1896

First meeting of Texas Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy

On this day in 1896, the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met for the first time in Victoria. The United Daughters of the Confederacy was established in 1894 by the merger of (more...)

THAYER, TX

THAYER, TEXAS. Thayer was a stop on the San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Railway, located off South U.S. Highway 281 three miles southeast of Mercedes in extreme southeastern Hidalgo County. The dispersed community had one store and an estimated population of twenty in 1930 and 1948, after which it was no longer shown on county maps. Its railroad station was abandoned in 1957.

Alicia A. Garza

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Alicia A. Garza, "THAYER, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvt29), accessed May 25, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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