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Yoakum, TX - History
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Welcome to the Yoakum Home page. The Yoakum Home page provides as much information as possible on Yoakum. Knowing Yoakum’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Yoakum’s Home page, you will also find Yoakum’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Yoakum has a population of 5762. 48.2% of Yoakum’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.8 are female. 48.1% of Yoakum is married and 66.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $86,438, and the average rent is $718. Household median income in Yoakum is $40,276, and the individual median income is $22,257. Yoakum’s Ethnic is the following: White(54.8%), Hispanic(49.3%), Other(32.3%), Black(11.2%), Multiple(1.6%), Native(0.1%).
The area was sparsely settled until a townsite was laid out with the construction of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway in 1887, and named for Benjamin F. Yoakum, a vice president of the line. The railroad built a roundhouse and maintenance shops there, employing hundreds of workers. The town was incorporated in 1889.
According to the Handbook of Texas Online, "By 1896 Yoakum had a cotton mill, three cotton gins, a compress, several churches, a bank, an ice factory, specialty and general stores, two weekly newspapers and one daily, a school system with 700 pupils, and a population of 3,000. By 1914 the number of residents had reached 7,500." In the early 20th century, the Tex-Tan company, later part of the Tandy Corporation, manufactured saddles, bridles, harnesses, belts, and wallets.
Other industries included a dairy, a cannery, meat-packing and food-processing plants, and a metalworking shop. Beginning in 1926, tomato farming in the surrounding area became a major agricultural business, with Yoakum being known as "the tomato capital of south central Texas."
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