And it isn't even summer, yet. There is something uniquely special and distinct about an abandoned Texas town. It does not become a ghost town as long as a highway passes through, but neither does it have a life. It is still there, but there is nothing there other than the shell of buildings. Businesses close but do not shutter and strip the building.
Exteriors weather quickly and grass grows in the cracks of concrete parking lots.
It is difficult to tell whether the town diminished suddenly or gradually, for a year old abandon looks no different than a decade old. Hebronville, Texas is the county seat of Jim Hogg County. Other than the courthouse and sheriff offices at one end of town, the main street is a historical relic. It is a town frozen in time, in some particular but not specific decade now long past. It waits for a revival that may never come.