The Town of Sarita

Sarita was chartered in 1903, and the St. Louis Brownsville & Mexico Railroad reached the town in 1905. The depot stood down La Parra Avenue where the tracks cross it. Although the depot was torn down in the 1970s, trains still pass through town but no longer stop. The Kenedys used the train to travel to Corpus Christi, Houston, and other destinations for business or shopping. If they returned late in the evening, they often spent the night in the family apartment upstairs in the Kenedy Pasture Company building and then made the six-mile journey to the ranch at La Parra the next morning.

Sarita, Texas · United States