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Estacado, Texas

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440: 452: 1486: 1243: 87: 40: 57: 94: 64: 346:. Estacado was chosen to serve as Crosby County's county seat in 1886. After a few years of prosperity, the town's population was estimated to be 200 in 1890, but Estacado started to deteriorate when Emma took over as the county seat in 1891. Following Cox's death in 1888, the town was left without a leader, and the invasion by 334:, but the other immigrants endured misery in tents and left the colony the next spring, leaving the Cox family as the only residents. However, interest in the colony was rekindled after a profitable crop was harvested, and ten families had been recruited by 1882. The town was originally known as 399:
classroom in 1882, the hamlet offered some of the earliest organized education on the South Plains; by 1884, classes were being given in the Quaker meetinghouse. The community's first college on the Llano Estacado, Central Plains Academy, was founded in 1890 and ran for two years. Today, the
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of 1892–1893 all but destroyed it. After 1900, however, the area's favorable growing conditions drew settlers, and Estacado survived despite the dissolution of the original Quaker community. After the post office closed in 1918, mail began to arrive through
318:' first White farming community was called Estacado. Paris Cox founded it back in 1879. In the late 1870s, Cox had obtained railroad land in western Crosby and eastern Lubbock counties in exchange for his 1138: 330:
colony there. The first families (surnamed Cox, Stubbs, Spray, and Hayworth) came to the area in the fall of 1879, just in time to endure a harsh winter. For his family, Cox constructed a
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State historical marker erected in 1936 to mark the site of Estacado
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on the Crosby County line, 12 mi (19 km) northeast of
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Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.).
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and some scattered homes in the middle of the 1980s.
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unincorporated community
Abandoned church in Estacado, Texas.
Estacado is located in Texas
Estacado is located in the United States
33°45′08″N 101°33′43″W / 33.75222°N 101.56194°W / 33.75222; -101.56194
State
Texas
Counties
Crosby
Lubbock
Time zone
UTC-6
Central (CST)
DST
UTC-5
Area code
806
FIPS code
GNIS
Handbook of Texas
unincorporated community
Crosby
Lubbock
U.S. state
Texas
Handbook of Texas
Lubbock metropolitan area
South Plains
sawmill
Indiana

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