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Water
tower and grain elevator in Windom
TE photo |
History in a Pecan
Shell
Windom was originally settled about 1870 - two years before
the arrival of the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Without a suitable population,
the community was designated a flag stop. The community built a school, churches
and was granted a post office by the mid 1880s.
By 1900 the population
had reached 312, growing (slowly) to reach 389 by the mid 1920s when highway 82
was paved. The Great Depression decreased the population to 317 in the mid 1930s.
It dropped to 290 by the end of WWII
and is on the 2000 state map as 245. |
Windom's
First Methodist Church
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, April 2006 | |
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