Alamo, Texas

This Alamo has nothing to do with the one in San Antonio. It takes its name from the Alamo Land and Sugar Company, the irrigation development firm that bought the land here in nineteen oh nine and moved the settlement from its earlier location, called Camp Ebenezer, to higher, better-drained ground. The company planted sugarcane and citrus and sold lots to farming families from across the Midwest, part of the great irrigation boom that turned the Rio Grande delta from scrub brush into one of the most productive agricultural strips in Texas.

The town incorporated in nineteen twenty-four. Within a year its population was reported at two hundred. Today Alamo sits along Interstate Two as one of the Valley's smaller cities, hemmed in by citrus groves and the broader urban corridor stretching from Mission to Edinburg.