Uriah Lott

[1] Lott first got involved with railway organizations that were planning to create a railroad from Corpus Christi to Mexico.

In 1885 Uriah Lott became president of the SA&AP (San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Company).

On August 7, 1884, the SA&AP Railway company was organized and elected its first president, A. Belknap.

Between 1884 and 1885 Lott relocated to San Antonio in determination to complete the SA&AP railway project.

Mifflin Kenedy stepped up and offered to help Lott with finances to continue building this much needed railway through Texas.

Kennedy contracted with the SA&AP to build the line, but in return he would receive bonuses acquired from the towns it would pass through.

[3] In February 1989, twenty-eight miles of railway were completed from Waco into Western Falls County.

The inscription on the historical marker reads: "Merchant, banker, builder of railroads to the Rio Grande.

Chartered the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad in 1875.

In 1884 he chartered and became president of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, which in time had 688 miles of track, and gave South Texas a new outlet to the Gulf of Mexico and international trade.Setting out (1900) to run a railroad to southernmost tip of Texas, he obtained right of way for segment of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway from Robstown to Brownsville.

Lott's work, vital to South Texas development, also enhanced national prosperity at turn of the century.