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Bartonsite (SW of Hale Center)
in the 1920s Hale County map
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
History on a
PinheadThis short-lived
town waited for a railroad that never arrived. In 1907 the town was laid out in
anticipation of a Santa Fe extention from Plainview
to Lubbock. The would-be town was on
land donated by the Barton Ranch.
Although it accumulated about 250 people
and had a post office granted, when the proposed route was cancelled people drifted
away and buildings were said to have been moved to Abernathy.
A few people held out until 1921 when the post office closed its doors. |
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