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History in
a Pecan Shell
Black, Texas began life in 1898 as a stop on the Pecos Valley and
Northern Texas Railroad. It was named for local landowner E. B. Black.
When the giant XIT Ranch started selling off it's immesnse holdings
in 1908, excursion trains carrying would-be land buyers passed through
Black. A post office opened in 1912 to join a school that had opened
two years previously. The post office closed and reopened several
times, opening for good in 1926. In the early 1920s, church services
were held in the grocery of Ray Conway. In 1950 the Black school district
merged with its counterpart in Friona and the former school has since
become a community center.
The 1990 Census figure of 100 residents is still in use for 2000. |
Black
Texas Conductor reading orders
1943 photo by photographer Jack Delano, courtesy Library of Congress
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