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Laguna “Last Day” [Card]Description
A “Last Day” card postmarked on October 30, 1943 and signed by the postmaster on the final day of business of the Laguna Post Office.Context
Laguna, formerly known as Good Luck and Norwood, was at the intersection of Farm Road 334 and State Highway 55, a mile west of the Nueces River and sixteen miles northwest of Uvalde in west central Uvalde County. The population of Laguna had dropped to about ten by the mid-1920s. During the mid-1930s a plan was proposed to dam the Nueces River near Laguna, making a surface reservoir with the capacity to irrigate 11,000 acres; the plan was never completed. In 1943 the post office at Laguna was discontinued; by 1946 the community included an estimated twenty residents, a school, and a business. During the mid-1940s the Laguna School was consolidated with the Uvalde school district. In 1965, the last year population statistics were reported for the community, five people made Laguna their home. Though there is evidence that two residents remained in Laguna in 1975, the community was abandoned by 1988. In 2000 the population was twenty.