The railroad finally made it down with the
San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway completed in Aransas Pass in 1887 - but it bypassed Ingleside! Palomas (also known as
Loma) was then established as a flag stop for
the railroad. Residents flocked there to set up
a new town site on the railroad in 1893, and
real estate developers built a large hotel on
the cove.
In 1909 developers Burton and Danforth laid
out the present Ingleside town site, and in
1913 the Ingleside Common School District
was formed with 80 students attending class.
In 1916 a hurricane destroyed many of the
buildings that had built up in the town, with
growth in the area stagnating. Grape production returned and was a booming industry between 1910 and 1920. The town’s economic mainstay was fishing and vegetable
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production - until the vegetable sheds were
closed in the 1950s.
Humble closing the plant and putting it up
for salvage sale.
In 1927, Humble Oil built a tank farm at Harbor City or Port Ingleside, and announced
plans for a refinery in Ingleside. Construction boomed
with the building of a housing complex, complete with
paved streets and their own
sewer for Humble employees. Ingleside experienced
a period of growth and
prosperity, during this period with two local newspapers being published, the
Review and the Index. But
Ingleside’s prosperity was
shorted lived. In 1944-1945
a labor dispute resulted in
Brauer Corporation opened an aluminum
fabrication plant in 1948, and Reynolds
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