Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about Lubbock’s forgotten towns is by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and award-winning history writer. Before Lubbock’s great growth spurt between 1940-1960, the county was a mostly rural area of about 50,000 souls. A 1940 road map of Lubbock County depicts familiar cities and towns like Lubbock, Slaton and Idalou. But other places dotting the 1940 chart are missing from current county maps. Some are ghost towns and others have simply faded into obscurity.

Estacado The first community settled on the South Plains of Texas lies on the borders of Lubbock and Crosby Counties. There, Paris Cox brough

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