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Museum lecture traces Volts and Dauphin families and Mission's citrus boom
Summary
At an Ocean Historical Museum lecture, Matt Faucik recounted his family’s arrival in the Rio Grande Valley, how the La Lomita Mission influenced the city’s name and Charles Volts’ role in early grapefruit production, drawing on family papers, museum holdings and local archives.
Matt Faucik, a lecturer at the Ocean Historical Museum, used a museum presentation to trace his maternal family’s migration to the Rio Grande Valley and to describe early citrus farming that helped shape Mission’s economy.
“Thank you, Mission Museum. It's been, interesting, learning more about my mom's side of the family,” Faucik said as he opened the talk, which drew on family photographs, a 20th‑century memoir and holdings at local and university libraries.
Faucik told attendees that his great‑grandfather, Charles (born 1875), traveled from the Midwest to Texas in the early 1900s and that Charles and his wife Rose settled in the valley after arriving by steamer at Point Isabel. According to family accounts Faucik cited, the couple and other relatives settled near Brownsville and moved to Mission by about 1905. Faucik quoted a family memoir describing a difficult arrival at Point Isabel and a narrow‑gauge train that briefly stopped…
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