Photographer: Stan A. Williams
Region: Prairies and Lakes
Yoakum is partially in western Lavaca County and in eastern DeWitt County. In
its early years, Anglo-Americans used this site for gathering herds of Texas
longhorns that were driven to market along the Chisholm Trail. With the arrival
of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroads in 1887, a town site was
established. Today, 12 leather goods manufacturers are based here. Yoakum once
called itself the "Green Wrap" tomato capital of the world and still
commemorates this heritage with an annual Tom Tom Festival, usually on the first
week of June.
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