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Texas Ghost
Town
SLIGO, TEXAS
Yoakum County,
Texas Panhandle
South of Farm Road 213
SW of Lubbock
16 miles SE of Plains
13 miles NE of Denver City
Population: 0
Area
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What's left
of Sligo
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, October 2006 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Pat and Kate McHugh, brother and sister ranchers named the settlement
after Sligo County in Ireland.
1903: Sligo was granted a post office, with Kate McHugh as postmistress.
The post office operated from the McHugh’s dugout.
1920: The post office was discontinued and Plains became the local
post office.
1923: the state legislature established the Sligo Independent School
District which became the Sligo Consolidated Independent School District
in 1932.
After two schools burned - students were sent to Denver City. The
charred remains of a school building at Sligo was all that was left
by 1980. |
| Photo courtesy
Barclay Gibson, October 2006 |
Photographer's
Note:
"At first, I thought the Sligo building was the school but after
reading what TE had to say I decided it was maybe the 'City Hall.'
It was a substantial building and definitely not burned. Who knows?"
- Barclay Gibson,
October 11, 2006
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