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Falfurrias is a city in South Texas and the county seat of Brooks County.

Falfurrias was founded by rancher and developer Edward C. Lasater, who started a cattle ranch in 1895 in what was then northern Starr County and named it La Mota de Falfurrias — at some 350,000 acres in 1893, one of the largest ranches in Texas.

Lasater believed the name Falfurrias came from a Lipan Indian word meaning 'land of heart's delight.'

The town of Falfurrias was founded in 1904 when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway reached the ranch, and its newspaper, the Falfurrias Facts, began publication in 1906.

In 1909 Lasater established a creamery whose sweet-cream butter — still sold today as Falfurrias Butter — made the town's name familiar across Texas, backed by what was then the largest herd of Jersey cattle in the world.

Brooks County was created in 1911 with Falfurrias as its county seat.

Irrigation farming arrived in the 1920s, bringing truck farming and citrus groves, and oil and gas discoveries in the 1930s and 1940s further boosted the Falfurrias economy.

Falfurrias's population peaked at 6,712 residents in 1950; the 2020 census counted 4,609 residents, down from 4,981 in 2010.

Falfurrias covers about 2.9 square miles of land.

Falfurrias is the burial place of Don Pedro Jaramillo, the Mexican-born curandero known as the 'Healer of Los Olmos'; his shrine on Farm Road 1418 still draws thousands of visitors, and the 1971 state historical marker at his grave was the first in Texas written in both English and Spanish.