Sparta, Texas, operated
a Mill such as this. . .
Sparta Auto Group, and particularly the General Manager Mike Castillo, is strongly committed to providing the Belton-Temple community the opportunity and place to acquire high quality preowned automobiles and trucks. Conveniently located on the corner of Sparta Road and Main Street in Belton (right next to the Super Wal-Mart), the Sparta Auto Group is easy to find.
Mike has strong roots in the community and an excellent history of extraordinary competence and success in all aspects of automobile sales. Mike's career in the business has included the management of both new and preowned car sales and he has a strong background in a broad spectrum of financing options.
About Us
Located on Sparta Road in Belton, the new business is not too far from the old town Sparta, Texas. Sparta was on Cowhouse Creek nine miles northwest of Belton in northwestern Bell County. A mill was built in the vicinity of the future community in the late 1860s, and the Sparta post office opened in 1873. By 1890 the town had thirty-five inhabitants, a mill and gin, a general store, and a blacksmith shop; the population had increased to seventy-five in 1896. The Sparta school had fifty-two pupils and one teacher in 1903. The post office closed in 1920, and Sparta had some eighty-four residents and one business in 1933. In 1948 there were two churches, the school, and two businesses in the town. The community was relocated as a result of the damming of the Leon River to impound Belton Lake in the 1950s.
