Black plaque № 21868

Arbor, TX, United States

Arbor Community. Colonists led by Empressario Joseph Vehlein received Mexican land grants in this area in the late 1820s and 1830s. Growth, however, did not begin in earnest until after the Civil War when immigrants from the war torn states moved here to take advantage of the expanding cattle and co

tton industries. Residents of nearby Pleasant Grove and Shady Grove erected a brush arbor nearby in the 1880s which served as a church and school. A general store, barber shop, blacksmith shop, grist

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