Tuleta - Texas Ghost Town

TULETA

NAME: Tuleta
COUNTY: Bee
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 5
CLIMATE: Typically Texas.
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Anytime.

COMMENTS: This town is still on the map, so likely it isn't a ghost town, but rather a very active small town. With the area rich in historical events, it is probably still worth a visit to see what they have out their way.
REMAINS: Probably.

A town was born in 1906 on the S.A.P. rails below Pettus. Norwegian Peter Unzicker bought a little over forty acres of the Chittim-Miller Ranch for a new town, which he named for J.W. Chittim's daugher, Tuleta. Back in 1886, after the train whistled through, settlers began to increase in the area. William Rapp, O.L. Taylor, and several of the first citizens petitioned the commissioners for a depot. Charles Holderman was the first postmaster in 1909. The next year the Tuleta school district was created out of the old Sam Domingo one. Front page Beeville Bee, in 1911, showed: "Tuleta Has An Agricultural High School." Biggest boost to the town was the discovery of gas and oil in 1929. SUBMITTED BY: Michelle Keener.

A town was born in 1906 on the S.A.P. rails below Pettus. Norwegian Peter Unzicker bought a little over forty acres of the Chittim-Miller Ranch for a new town,
which he named for J.W. Chittim's daugher, Tuleta. Back in 1886, after the train whistled through, settlers began to increase in the area. William Rapp, O.L. Taylor, and several of the first citizens petitioned the commissioners for a depot. Charles Holderman was the first postmaster in 1909. The next year the Tuleta school district was created out of the old Sam Domingo one. Front page Beeville Bee, in 1911, showed: "Tuleta Has An Agricultural High School." Biggest boost to the town was the discovery of gas and oil in 1929. SUBMITTED BY: Michelle Keener.

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