History of Bremond Texas
Joe Syzdek’s Yahoo Syzdek Family Group has a great link to a history of Bremond Texas which is where many Syzdeks and other Polish people settled in the 1870s and 1880s.
“When the railroad passed through Hearne and Calvert and the town site for Bremond was staked-off in early 1869, thousands of people moved westward. When Bremond came into existence as a roaring boom town and railroad terminus, settlers flocked to the place. The first settlers in Bremond were railway workmen and merchants of all kinds who had followed railroad construction from Houston. Within a year after the first train, Bremond had a population of over 2000 and the overflowing population spread into the countryside. “