In 1905 this town was a drowsy country village called Brewer, named for 1835 land grantee Green Berry Brewer, and it had been settled in the 1870s. Prosperity arrived in 1906 when the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railroad chose it as the site of railroad shops and as the main division point between Houston and Fort Worth. The town was quickly renamed for the Teague family, relatives of railroad builder B.F. Yoakum. In August 1906, promoters held a town lot sale, and customers arriving on a special train were met by a band playing "Dixie" and consumed 5,000 pounds of barbecue before the day ended. By 1907 Teague had been transformed, with dozens of brick buildings under construction, a soaring population, and the Ten Thousand Club advertising "10,000 by 1910." Teague's first opera house was soon projected, and citizens once watched two merchants struggle happily to the bank carrying large baskets of greenbacks. During the first decade of the 1900s, population hovered at 5,000, but momentum then decreased. With the decline of passenger train service, Teague began to dwindle, and today it is again a quiet town, with the railroad depot-office building housing a museum.