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Ivy/Ivy Switch ~ ca
1860
Ivy lies very close to
the border of Gonzales and Caldwell counties and was about three or four miles
west of Harwood at the foot of Iron Peak, upon whose summit now rise tall radio
towers. Ivy began appearing on old maps in the 1860s. The old beef and stage
route ran close by. The name Ivy appears prominently on the early railroad maps,
possibly owing to the fact that when Harrisburg-San Antonio came through in the
1870s, trains stopped a short distance away to load fuel---water and cordwood. A
USGS map indicates a school was established in 1906; yet it must have been
short-lived, since it shows no consolidation with the Caldwell or Gonzales
systems. Ivy moved closer to the railroad and became Ivy Switch, because the
double track system allows trains to bypass one another on the east-west route.
It was at Ivy Switch that a thwarted robbery of a federal gold shipment occurred
in the 1800s.
Sources –
1. Caldwell County Kin: The First 150 Years published by the Genealogical and
Historical Society of Caldwell County, November 2000. C-19
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The Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell County.
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Updated
10/14/2019
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