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Lytle, TX - History
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Welcome to the Lytle Home page. The Lytle Home page provides as much information as possible on Lytle. Knowing Lytle’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lytle’s Home page, you will also find Lytle’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Lytle has a population of 2429. 48.4% of Lytle’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.6 are female. 43.2% of Lytle is married and 73.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $104,345, and the average rent is $794. Household median income in Lytle is $54,583, and the individual median income is $25,306. Lytle’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.7%), Hispanic(70.1%), Multiple(9.7%), Other(0.6%).
Lytle grew out of 321 acres located around the head of Atascosa Creek which were patented to Henry Volkner in 1856. Volkner was the assignee of Mahan Matter, and the patent was signed by Elisha M. Pease, Governor of Texas. In 1870, Volkner sold the 321 acres for $175 to Fitch S. Adams. Lytle's first school was built on Adams' property with a verbal agreement that as long as the school building was there, the land on which it stood would belong to the school.In 1881, officials from the International–Great Northern Railroad made an agreement with B.
G. Andrews in which he was to give land for a new station ("Andrews Station"). There was some misunderstanding in making the deed, and the dispute ended with Mr. Andrews refusing to submit the property deed. Traildriver and cattleman Captain John Thomas Lytle (1844–1907) then secured land some three miles southwest of Andrews Station, and one morning in 1882 railroad employees loaded Andrews Station on two flat cars and moved it to the present site near the Lytle-McDaniel Ranch, which became known as Lytle or Lytle Station.
When a post office was granted in 1883, the town also consisted of a general store, a bar, and a casketmaker named W. J. Garnand, who also became the first postmaster. An undated newspaper clipping entitled "Pioneer of Lytle" reads, "...W. J. Garnand was the first man to locate in the town of Lytle.
That was in 1883. He was the first postmaster there and has been a leading citizen all the time."In 1884, Lytle had a population of fifty and the town included a union church, a district school, a hotel, and a physician. By 1892 the population doubled and grown to include four general stores, two livestock breeders, and a Methodist church.
Lytle's early settlers were primarily engaged in farming and in raising cattle. Over time, Lytle became a major shipping point for cattle, and for years the old stock pens and loading chute were familiar landmarks until they were removed in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Cotton and corn were also two important crops, and cotton gins were located in both Lytle and in now-abandoned Benton City.
In the late 1890s, coal mining also contributed to the local economy. By 1896, the population had risen to 150. By 1914 the town had grown to include telephone service, another general store, two lumberyards, and a weekly newspaper called The Herald, and the population had grown to 600. Lytle School had 127 students.
During the Great Depression, the school was enlarged as part of a WPA project. After World War II, the Chamber of Commerce raised enough money together with property owner participation to pave the streets. Later, a pitch by W. C. Loessberg and a group of volunteers led to the town being incorporated on October 27, 1951.
On May 28, 1955, a bond election was passed to drill the Edwards well for city water service, and the Lytle Volunteer Fire Department was also founded that year. Another bond election passed to give the city a gas system in 1960, and a sewer system in 1961. More streets were paved in 1971, and a garbage removal and ambulance service were added in 1974.
Since that time, the city has continued to grow.
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