Poteet, Texas

Everything Poteet is known for

80 songs mention this city 4 artists from here

Poteet, Texas, known as the "Strawberry Capital of Texas," is also connected to a notable musical heritage. This city, located in Atascosa County about 30 miles south of San Antonio, is home to several artists and is mentioned in numerous songs.

Country music legend George Strait was born in Poteet, and his songs like "Write This Down" and "The Chair" are part of the 60 songs in our collection that mention the town. Tejano music artist David Lee Garza also hails from Poteet, and his group, David Lee Garza y Los Musicales, has performed at the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival, which often features a mix of country and Tejano music.

Music in Poteet

Songs About Poteet

San Antone
Randy Rogers Band
53%
"There's a girl from down around Poteet"
Fit For The King
Kyle Park
50%
"Fit for the King"
tennessee drinkin'
william beckmann
45%
Crushin' It
Brad Paisley
45%
"But like the great George freakin Strait, I'm the king of getting unwound"
Damn Strait
Scotty McCreery
45%
"Every damn Strait song"
George Fucking Strait
Laci Kaye Booth
45%
"George fucking Strait"
God & George Strait
Rich O'Toole
45%
"God and George Strait"
Check Yes or No
george strait
45%
I Cross My Heart
george strait
45%
The Chair
george strait
45%
Write This Down
george strait
45%
Third Row George Strait
Frank Ray
42%
"Third row George Strait"
Damn Strait
Granger Smith
40%
"Every damn Strait song"
Give It To Me Strait
Tim McGraw
40%
"Just give it to me Strait"
Texas
Blake Shelton
18%
"George Strait said it Yeah, that's where all them exes go"
Easy Money Down in Texas
Ray Wylie Hubbard
8%
"Don't ever disrespect George Strait"
Last Time for Everything
Brad Paisley
8%
"Like a George Strait cassette in a Pontiac"
Real World
Big & Rich
8%
"I got more money than George Strait"
Alone In The Light
Kyle Park
8%
"I'll Two-step to Conway and waltz to The King"
Girls I Date
Mike Ryan
8%
"I ain't Merle Haggard and I ain't George Strait"

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Artists From Poteet

G
George Strait
country
D
David Lee Garza
latin
D
David Lee Garza y Los Musicales
latin
B
Brad Jenschke
country

Rivers & Roads in Song near Poteet

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Poteet.

San Antonio River 2 songs Interstate 35 43 songs Interstate 10 36 songs US Route 90 9 songs Chisholm Trail 8 songs Frio River 13 songs

Musical Heritage

Poteet's Strawberry Festival Grounds RoadyGoat

These hundred and six acres just north of town are the Poteet Strawberry Festival grounds, home to one of South Texas's biggest parties. The festival started in 1948, when the Poteet Rotary Club threw a small strawberry celebration in downtown Poteet, drawing about five thousand people that first year. By 1980 the event had outgrown downtown and moved out here to its own grounds, where it's stayed ever since. Today it draws more than a hundred thousand visitors over a single weekend every April, with a main stage and a second stage running country and Tejano music back to back alongside the strawberry vendors. Nearly eighty years after that first Rotary Club gathering, the festival is still going strong on the same ground you're passing right now.

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History of Poteet

Poteet, TX RoadyGoat

A notable landmark in Poteet is the mosaic of Poteet Canyon, which stands in front of the town's fire station. This artwork is named after the town and is inspired by the long-running comic strip by Milton Caniff, adding a unique cultural touch to the city's landscape.

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Where the King of Country Was Born RoadyGoat

Country music's reigning King got his start in this strawberry town. George Harvey Strait was born in Poteet on May 18, 1952, the son of John and Doris Strait, before the family settled in nearby Pearsall, where his father taught school and ran a ranch and George spent his boyhood working cattle on weekends and summers. That ranch upbringing, the horses, the dust, the quiet work, would later soak into the plainspoken honky-tonk and Western swing that made him a legend. Strait went on to score dozens of number-one singles and become one of the best-selling country artists ever, the unhurried, hat-tipping standard-bearer fans simply call the King of Country. He's far better known for Pearsall, where he was raised, but the birth record points right back here to Poteet, the little Atascosa County town that can rightly claim it was the first ground a future Country Music Hall of Famer ever stood on. Roll the windows down for this one; somewhere out in these fields is where the story of George Strait began. (Source: The Boot; Britannica.)

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How a Cotton Town Became the Strawberry Capital RoadyGoat

Poteet wasn't always berry country. For decades cotton ruled these fields, and the town stayed small until the railroad and the water changed everything. Storekeeper Henry Mumme discovered artesian wells here around 1904, and when the Artesian Belt Railroad pushed through in 1910 on land the Mumme family helped provide, Poteet suddenly had both irrigation water and a way to ship perishable crops. The real turn came in 1920, when Gustav Aigner moved to town and grew Missionary strawberries that thrived in the local sandy soil. Word spread fast, and the strawberry quickly became one of the town's signature crops, prized for ripening early and tasting sweet under the South Texas sun. The combination, artesian water, fine sandy loam, mild winters, and a rail line to market, turned a quiet cotton settlement into a place that would call itself the Strawberry Capital of Texas. Today only a few dozen growers remain, most farming small plots, but the identity they built a century ago still defines the town, its festival, and its water tower. (Source: Handbook of Texas; Texas Highways.)

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Battle of Medina

1813

Texas' bloodiest military engagement -- the Battle of Medina -- may have taken place in this general vicinity in 1813. The early 19th century was a time of political upheaval, and in 1812, while the U.S. was at war with England, Spain faced revolts throughout Latin America, including Mexico. In this revolutionary climate, Americans and others began efforts to influence the fate of Mexico, of which Texas was a province. Bernardo Gutiérrez and Lt. A.W. Magee marched from Louisiana to Texas in 1812 with their Republican Army of the North. Capturing Nacogdoches and Trinidad, they moved on to Presidio La Bahía, where they survived a four-month siege by Spanish governors and their Royalist forces. The Royalists retreated toward San Antonio in February 1813, and in March the Republican Army followed them and was ambushed in the Battle of Rosillo. The Republicans persevered, captured San Antonio and executed the Spanish governors. Gutiérrez's new Republic of Texas, with its green flag, was marked by internal political problems. Spain sent troops under Gen. Joaquín de Arredondo to retake Texas. Among his men was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, later Mexico's leader during the Texas Revolution. The Republicans marched from San Antonio on Aug. 15, 1813 with about 1,400 troops: American volunteers, Tejanos, Mexicans and Native Americans. Led across the plains south of the Medina River, the fatigued army faced Spanish troops on Aug. 18 and was soundly defeated. Fewer than 100 escaped; most were executed. The Spanish left the decimated Texans on the battlefield and proceeded to San Antonio to punish citizens who supported independence. Eight years later, Mexican leaders ordered the remains of the fallen soldiers to be buried under an oak tree on the battlefield. Although the exact site of the battle has yet to be determined archeologically, the story remains an important part of Texas history. (2005)

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Long, Hubert

1958

Hubert Long, country music promoter and talent agent, was born in Poteet, Texas, on December 3, 1923. He grew up in Freer and Corpus Christi. He worked in the record department of a Corpus Christi dime store and entered the production end of the music industry when he took a job at Decca Records in San Antonio. Long followed his Decca boss to RCA Victor in Houston, where he met music promoter Col. Tom Parker. Parker put Long in charge of publicity for Eddy Arnold, whom Long is credited with having promoted to superstardom. This marked the real beginning of Long's career as a music promoter. He came into his own professionally in the early 1950s when, as manager of the Louisiana Hayride , he signed Faron Young and Webb Pierce to management contracts. Long founded the Hubert Long Agency in 1952. He further increased his influence as a talent agent when he founded the independent talent agency Stable of Stars in 1955. Over the course of his career, he expanded his interests to include advertising, real estate, and the famous Moss Rose music publishing house, among other ventures. Country music suffered in 1958, as rock-and-roll began to compete with it. Long and others sought to strengthen country music's presence in the commercial music market. On August 14, 1958, Long took part in a meeting that led to the chartering of the Country Music Association, an organization devoted to the promotion of country music. The CMA replaced the floundering Country Music Disc Jockey Association as the only non-profit group working to advance country music. Long served as secretary when the CMA opened in Nashville on December 8, 1958. He went on to serve as president of the CMA in 1968 and as chairman in 1972. Since its charter in 1958, the CMA has grown from 233 members to more than 6,000 in forty-three countries. Whether he managed them, sold their songs, promoted their shows, or fought for them through the CMA, Hubert Long touched the lives of countless country musicians. He died on September 7, 1972. The CMA posthumously elected him into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1979.

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Poteet

1880

The town of Poteet traces its history to the 1880s, when Francis Marion Poteet (1833-1907) established a mercantile store northeast of this area. A blacksmith and farmer as well as a merchant, Poteet began providing mail service to his customers. Poteet sold his business to Henry T. Mumme (1870-1947) before 1900. Mumme continued to offer postal service at the store, and in 1910 he and his wife Ida (1869-1942) donated 400 acres of land for a new townsite. Since the area had been referred to as Poteet as a result of the early mail service, the new town was named in honor of Francis Marion Poteet. Mumme moved his store to the new townsite in 1911. Mumme drilled the town's first artesian water well and is credited with introducing the cultivation of strawberries here. The artesian water, together with the sandy soil of the region, proved ideal for growing the berries. Known statewide for its superior quality strawberries, Poteet has been nicknamed the "Strawberry Capital of Texas." The town grew steadily after 1910, with the establishment of schools, churches, homes, and businesses. It was incorporated in 1926. (1989)

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Amphion and Amphion Cemetery

1857

Amphion traces its beginning to the establishment of Atascosa County's first courthouse which is believed to have been constructed near this site at the county seat of Navatasco in 1857. Amphion, thought to have been named after a figure in Greek mythology, was located within the 17,000-acre ranch of Jose Antonio Navarro, a prominent local rancher and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Amphion was at one time a thriving community with several general stores, a hotel, post office, blacksmith shop, cotton gin, tannery, churches, fraternal lodges and a school. Amphion Cemetery was established about 1870 at this site on land donated by Roy Jenkins and Frank Lozano. Although the earliest recorded gravesite is that of Laura Underwood (d.1891) there is a gravestone with the year 1800 inscribed on its surface that local tradition claims marks the grave of a young boy killed by indians. This cemetery contains the graves of at least two veterans of the American Civil War. When railroad lines were built through Atascosa County in 1907 and 1927 along routes that bypassed Amphion, business activity declined and the community eventually dissolved. Virtually all that remains of the former town of Amphion is this cemetery. (1992)

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Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

1966

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has represented Mexican Americans in civil-rights lawsuits since it was incorporated in Texas in 1967. The pivotal moment in its founding occurred in a Jourdanton, Texas, courtroom in June 1966. Attorney Pete Tijerina, representing a Mexican American female client in a lawsuit against an Anglo, faced an initial jury pool with no Mexican Americans. A second jury pool on August 1, 1966, yielded only two Spanish-surnamed jurors, one who was deceased and another who did not speak English. Tijerina won his case; however, he obtained only a portion of the money he believed was fair for his client, who had suffered an amputated leg in a car accident caused by the Anglo defendant. Tijerina believed the jury selection process determined the low monetary outcome of the case. After this experience, he set out with fellow Mexican-American attorneys and Jack Greenberg of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to organize a legal entity through which Mexican Americans would challenge discrimination in the courts, education, employment, and immigration. Tijerina both cofounded and served as the fund's first executive director, and Mario Obledo , a former state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens , was its first general counsel. Its first national office was in San Antonio. A board of directors was established to oversee the organization. In 1968 Tijerina, with the assistance of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the NAACP, obtained a $2,250,000 five-year grant from the Ford Foundation to implement "litigation and general education activities." MALDEF's areas of interest included litigation in education, employment, and police-brutality cases. The fund also conducted research and published documents on the legal rights of Mexican Americans and disseminated a newsletter, MALDEF . The Ford grant provided scholarship money to educate more Mexican-American lawyers. At first non-Hispanic lawyers made up a sizable portion of MALDEF staff and cooperating attorneys. In its first three years, MALDEF floundered in its attempts to file constitutionally significant lawsuits and was inundated with routine legal-aid cases that could be resolved outside the courts. In addition to its difficulty in gaining traction, some of its San Antonio staff were deemed "militant," a perception that caused the Ford Foundation to recommend moving the headquarters out of the state and replacing Tijerina as executive director. MALDEF chose San Francisco, California, as its new headquarters and selected Mario Obledo as executive director and general counsel. The national office was subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California, and continued to maintain a regional branch in San Antonio. Later, it added regional branches in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Under Obledo's direction, MALDEF began to work on employment discrimination cases with the NAACP legal office. He improved the national standing of the organization by involving it in Supreme Court cases through friend-of-the-court briefs, sometimes filed in conjunction with other organizations. In 1973, when the case of Demetrio Rodríguez et al. v. San Antonio Independent School District was tried before the United States Supreme Court, civil-rights proponents suffered a major defeat when the court ruled against equal financing of education. Though not a MALDEF case, the decision had significant bearing on MALDEF's legal strategies. That same year MALDEF achieved its first successful litigation before the Supreme Court in the case of White, et al. v. Regester, et al. , which resulted in the implementation of single-member districts and served as a precedent for Texas county, city council, and school board districts. This litigation was instrumental in eventually bringing Texas into compliance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which required the federal approval o

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