The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Mrs. Annie T. Hamilton of Cuero owned a tract of land in the Brush Country where Three Rivers now sits. At the urging of Mrs. Hamilton, Charles R. Tips came to the Brush Country. In 1913, Mrs. Hamilton paid the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad to build a depot on her land. Tips organized a townsite company and sold land for the township. On July 4, 1913 the town began with a grand opening and first sale of land. From its formation, it was designed as a segregated township, with the "Mexican" section located between the river and the railroad tracks, west of the business section. This can still be seen today in the differences of street names, even though forced segregation ended many decades past.
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Start Three Rivers’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Three Rivers’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Three Rivers, decade by decade
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Nothing in Three Rivers is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Three Rivers has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Live Oak County Jail in Three Rivers, 4.8 miles away.
Three Rivers and the nearest listed places
Closest to Three Rivers
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.