Crystal City

Crystal City

      city, seat (1928) of Zavala county, southern Texas, U.S. It is located some 92 miles (148 km) southwest of San Antonio and 35 miles (56 km) from the Mexico border. The city site was platted by land developers Carl F. Groos and E.J. Buckingham on the 10,000-acre (4,050-hectare) Cross S Ranch, which they purchased in 1905. They named the city for the many crystal-clear springs (used for irrigation) in the area. The arrival of a railroad in 1908 assured the city's development as a processing, packing, and shipping centre for vegetables, especially spinach, grown in the surrounding area. The city became known as the “Spinach Capital of the World,” and in 1937 a statue of a popular Fleischer brothers cartoon character named Popeye—a sailor who ate spinach for instant strength—was erected in the city square. During World War II a labour camp on the outskirts of the city was converted into an internment camp. A spinach festival begun before the war was reinstituted in 1982 as an annual event (November). Inc. town, 1910; city, 1928. Pop. (1990) 8,263; (2000) 7,190.

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