College Station, TX news and local guide

The town grew slowly, to 350 people in 1884 and 391 by 1900. The I&GN Railroad reached it in 1900, electric interurban service to neighboring Bryan began about 1910, and a city bus system replaced the interurban in the 1920s. North Oakwood, the community to the north, was incorporated into Bryan in 1930, and College Station itself incorporated only on October 19, 1938, after a 217 to 39 vote, with John H. Binney as first mayor. It soon set up a zoning commission and had 2,184 people by 1940. Ernest Langford, called by some the father of College Station, began a 26-year tenure as mayor in 1942, and early on the city adopted the council-manager form of government. Growth accelerated after World War II, with the nonstudent population rising from 7,898 in 1950 to 67,890 in 2000. The George Bush Presidential Library opened on the campus in 1997, and in 1999 the collapse of the Aggie Bonfire under construction killed 12 people and injured 27. Sources Wikipedia: College Station, Texas