Crystal City is a city in and the county seat of Zavala County. Two land developers had developed the town in the early 1900s. In 1905, they bought the 10,000-acre Cross S Ranch, sold most of the land as farms, and platted the townsite of Crystal City, which was named for the clear artesian water of the town. In 1908, the town was granted a post office, the first school building was established, and the Crystal City and Uvalde Railway provided its first rail service to the community. In 1910, the city was incorporated and four years later, it had a bank, three general stores, and the weekly Chronicle. At first, onions were the city’s major crop but by the 1930s, spinach became their major crop and the city was crowned as the “Spinach Capital of the World.” In 1936, the first annual spinach festival was held and a year after, a statue of Popeye, the mighty consumer of spinach, was erected across the city hall.
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