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Cranes in
mid-flight near South Plains
Photo Courtesy Eric Blackwell, November 2006 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
In 1909 a post office was opened in the store of J.D. Childress five
miles east of present-day South Plains. Operating under the name of
Curlew the town had been a stagecoach stop. The post office was reopened
in the home of Mrs. J. W. Simms, which was about three miles closer
to the present South Plains and finally it moved to its present location
alongside the railroad when it arrived in the late 1920s. Mr. Childress'
original Curlew store moved to the railroad in 1929. 200 acres of
land was subdivided into town lots in 1927 and about this time South
Plains opened its first hotel (burned in 1934). South Plains became
another casualty of the Great Depression and although it had a population
of 180 people as late as 1980, it had shrunk to a mere 25 by 1990
- the same figure continues to be used on the official state map for
2006. |
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