Guadalupe River Floods Twice

The county had grown to a population of 28,882, while the town had a population of 3,130. On April 10th, a new Mexican public school was founded on Market Square (Block 4), between two churches, and not the school known as Riverside. The Guadalupe River experienced two floods that year, one in April which crested at 34-35 feet, and another in July which crested at 36 feet in Belmont. On June 14th, two young men drowned while fishing too close to the dam in their small boat. In August, C.T. Rather sold a block of land to the Gonzales Cotton Mill Company, where the Cotton Mill stood for many years. Additionally, a three-story brick building, The Plaza Hotel, was erected on the 400 block of St. James Street (Block 11), but it burned to the ground on January 6, 1966. R.H. Walker completed a building just north of the Plaza Hotel, which was known as the Lauraine Building for many years. Finally, Solomon Stahl built a large two-story brick building on the south side of Block 19, located at 307 St. Lawrence Street.