Small ranching community hit by Harvey to re-build volunteer fire station nearly 7 years later

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Blanconia is a small ranching community right in the middle of a triangle known as Beeville, Goliad and Refugio. A Baptist church there has been around since 1855. Just a few hundred feet south along FM 2441 is St. Catherine Catholic Church built in 1926. Down at the corner of 2441 and Highway 202 is the community center which is not only a meeting place but it stores some of the history of the area. Sitting right next to it used to be the Volunteer fire department-that is, until Hurricane Harvey hit.

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