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Benton City, Texas
Benton City is a ghost town in Atascosa County, Texas, United States, sometimes also called ''Benton'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ancestry.com/ )〕 located on Benton City Road (FM 3175) along Atascosa Creek, 3 miles east of present day Lytle,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lytletx.org/ )〕 27 miles southwest of San Antonio.
==History==
Benton City was first settled in the 1840s on what was once known as the Old San Antonio Road. By 1880, the town had grown to include three cotton gins, a hotel, several grocery stores, a newspaper, a drug store, a blacksmith, a carpenter shop, a saddle and boot shop, a sawmill, a livery stable, several churches, a Masonic Lodge and a school. A stage line made regular stops there and delivered mail 2-3 times per week. The town was named either after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, or Samuel Benton, who fought in the Texas Revolution, and who had a son who lived in the area. With the arrival of the railroad in nearby Lytle in the 1880s, the end of the stage coach, and the consolidating of the school district with Lytle, Benton City eventually became obsolete. Its population fluctuated several times before finally disappearing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ancestry.com/ )〕
The oldest cemetery in the area was also founded in Benton City in 1870, and remains to this day. Pioneers such as Lytle, Jones, Calk, and McDonnell rest in peace there, as well as many veterans of Indian warfare, the Civil War, and both World Wars, including a number of area residents who died during a tuberculosis outbreak that occurred in the 1800s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pacweb.alamo.edu/InteractiveHistory/projects/rhines/StudentProjects/1998/Lytle/lytle.htm )〕
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