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Gregory began in 1886-87 at Corpus Christi Junction, the point on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway where a spur branched off toward Corpus Christi across Nueces Bay.

The town was named for Thomas Watt Gregory, a close friend of rancher George W. Fulton who later became Attorney General of the United States.

In 1887 the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company gave 640 acres for the townsite and built cattle pens, and a post office was granted the same year.

The Coleman-Fulton Company built Gregory's first schoolhouse in 1891, and by 1892 the young company town had about 250 residents; its first bank opened in 1900.

Gregory grew into a trading center with shops, general stores, and three cotton gins, and the Coleman-Fulton Company built the three-story Green Hotel in 1909 for rail travelers.

When the Coleman-Fulton headquarters and the Green Hotel relocated to Taft in the 1920s, Gregory survived as a residential and farming community.

Gregory was incorporated in 1951, and N. A. East was elected its first mayor.

Gregory had a population of 1,740 at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 2,739 in 1980.

The city sits at the junction of U.S. Highway 181 and State Highways 35 and 361 in southeastern San Patricio County, about three miles northeast of Portland.