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We would like to provide the residents of  Benavides  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Benavides Home page. The Benavides Home page provides as much information as possible on Benavides. Knowing Benavides’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Benavides’s Home page, you will also find Benavides’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Benavides has a population of 2077. 48% of Benavides’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 48% of Benavides is married and 67.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $58,336, and the average rent is $765. Household median income in Benavides is $65,076, and the individual median income is $18,514. Benavides’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(97.9%), White(96.1%), Other(2.4%), Multiple(1.5%).


The town is named after Plácido Benavides (1837–1919), namesake nephew of Plácido Benavides (1810–1837), Tejano 1832 alcalde of Victoria, who served under Stephen F. Austin with Juan Seguin, in the Siege of Béxar. Plácido Benavides whom the town is named after served in the Confederate States Army.


After the war, he built his "Rancho Palo Alto" into one of the largest ranches in Duval County. In 1880, he agreed to let the county locate a railroad station on his property. In 1881, he donated 80 acres (32 ha) to establish the community that grew up around the station on the Texas Mexican Railway. In 1882 Archie Parr arrived to manage the Sweden Ranch for the Lott & Nielson Pasture Company.


The former schoolteacher and ranch hand was later a rancher, Texas state senator, and the first "Duke of Duval", political boss of the county. His middle son, George Berham Parr, succeeded him as El Patrón and Duke of Duval. Other descendants of Archie also figured prominently in county politics. In 1911, Archie campaigned unsuccessfully to move the county courthouse from San Diego to Benavides.


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