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Texas
Ghost Town
LA FRUTA, TEXAS
San Patricio County,
Texas Gulf Coast
Formerly on the north bank of the Nueces River
at the Highway 359 bridge
4 Miles S of Mathis
Population 0
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History
in a Pecan Shell
La Fruta had had a school before the railroad arrived but wasn't thought
of as a town until 1888. Two stores soon opened and a post office
was granted in 1892.
While the post office packed up and moved to Mathis, La Fruta continued
to prosper as a watermelon shipping point. The site of the highway
359 bridge was once a ferry crossing back in the 1870s. The ferry
was replaced by a bridge in 1915. According to the Handbook of
Texas, today "Nothing remains to mark the site of La Fruta."
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