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Hobson, Texas is on the United States
Highway 181 and Farm Road 81 near Indian Crossing on the San Antonio
River. This river flows right near
this small town giving people the opportunity for irrigation if necessary. Located in the county of Karnes County,
it’s about three and a half miles south of Falls City or about fifty miles
south of the large city of San Antonio. During the 1890s, the town was founded
under the name Castine on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway by the
Mitchell Brothers firm of Hallettsville.
A post office was then established there in 1898, located just off the
highway. Shortly thereafter, the
Spanish-American War hero Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson made a railroad
tour of Texas and spoke at Castine; local citizens renamed their town Hobson
in 1899. R. J. Polasek operated the
first Hobson business, a store and a post office, in a small frame building.
Later he added a general store, a cotton gin, a lumberyard, and a gristmill.
A. W. McCall built a brick kiln there, and a Dr. Simon practiced medicine and
built a hospital that was later used as a parochial school. Another thriving
business was Kowalik's General Store. |
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The Wonderful
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