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An Independent Study
Under Dr. Richard McCaslin, History Dept Chair
2nd Semester, Summer '09
Pictures from Three Rivers' Past
By Richard Hudson
Three Rivers is an old town in South Texas built in the early part of the twentieth century
about eighty miles straight south of San Antonio. A small town of old, empty and decaying
buildings, Three Rivers sits in a shallow basin where the Nueces, Frio, and Atascosa rivers meet.
True, some of the town's old structures are still in use. There are newer ones cropping up
here and there, though not around the town square - mostly along Highway 281 north of
downtown where Highway 72 branches off and runs northeast up a hill past the water tower
and cemetery into the distant brush country. The old buildings flank the perimeter of the late
1950's vintage, brick municipal building that sits nestled among tall, leafy pecan trees in the
town's main square. Most of the old buildings were built in the 1920s and 30s. And some, as
far back as 1913 when the town originated, still remain.
It is a ranching and farm town; a hunting town and an oil town. It is a town of working men
and women, a place where it is reasonably comfortable in the winter and extremely hot and

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