La Lomita or Mission - Texas Ghost Town

LA LOMITA or MISSION

NAME: La Lomita or Mission
COUNTY: Hidalgo
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 5
CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Winter, spring, fall

COMMENTS: Near Brownsville.
REMAINS: The Chapel.

La Lomita was never really a town but more of a mission station between the Catholic missions at Roma and Brownsville. It was, however, the reason for the newer town of Mission, a few miles to the north, coming into existence. La Lomita originated with a grant of land from the King of Spain in 1767. The grant came into possession of the Catholic Missionary Society of the Oblate Fathers who founded the mission station at La Lomita. In 1908, the Fathers sold a large portion of the land to a partnership that divided it into parcels for sale to farmers. The partnership laid out the town to the north and named it for the La Lomita Mission and the town prospered with the introduction of irrigated agriculture. Only the chapel remains at the old mission site. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth. La Lomita is possible haunted. Click here for a picture taken at the site.	Ghosts at La Lomita? Judge for yourself, Click Here

La Lomita was never really a town but more of a mission station between the Catholic missions at Roma and Brownsville. It was, however, the reason for the newer town of Mission, a few miles to the north, coming into existence. La Lomita originated with a grant of land from the King of Spain in 1767. The grant came into possession of the Catholic Missionary Society of the Oblate Fathers who founded the mission station at La Lomita. In 1908, the Fathers sold a large portion of the land to a partnership that divided it into parcels for sale to farmers. The partnership laid out the town to the north and named it for the La Lomita Mission and the town prospered with the introduction of irrigated agriculture. Only the chapel remains at the old mission site. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth. La Lomita is possible haunted. Click here for a picture taken at the site.

Ghosts at La Lomita?
Judge for yourself, Click Here

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