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History of Sayers, Texas: A Rural Community Overview
Published: 1952
Updated: July 1, 1995
Sayers is at the junction of U.S. Highway 87 and Farm Road 1628, thirteen miles southeast of downtown San Antonio in eastern Bexar County. The area was settled after theCivil War. A post office opened there in 1885, and by 1896 the community had fifty residents, two general stores, a school, and a church. After 1915 the post office was replaced by rural delivery from Adkins. In 1940 three businesses and a population of twenty-five were reported at Sayers. AfterWorld War II the businesses closed, but in the early 1990s Sayers was still a dispersed rural community.
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The following, adapted from theChicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Christopher Long, “Sayers, TX,”Handbook of Texas Online, accessed December 17, 2025, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/sayers-tx.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
- Original Publication Date:
- 1952
- Most Recent Revision Date:
- July 1, 1995
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