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February 14, 2022

​Today in Texas History

By Bandera Spirits of Texas

On this day in 1882, the town of Valentine, Texas, was founded and named when a Southern Pacific Railroad crew building east from El Paso reached the site. Valentine, in Jeff Davis County, is 36 miles west of Fort Davis.
The trains started running in 1883, and Valentine got a post office in 1886. The town became a shipping point for local cattle ranchers, and by 1914 it had an estimated population of 500, five cattle breeders, a news company, a real estate office, a grocery store, a restaurant, and the Valentine Business Club.
By the late 1990s, however, the estimated population had dropped to 267. 
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