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History in
a Pecan Shell
The community was
founded on the 10,500-acre John Quincy ranch. After being purchased
in 1891, development began and a post office was requested and granted.
Acreage was sold to settlers recruited from Kansas and other states.
A one-teacher school in 1898-99 taught only 13 pupils.
Under-development and a lack of settlers spelled oblivion, and so
the settlement was sold to a San
Antonio business called the Bee County Irrigation Syndicate. They
tried to recruit new settlers, but were unsuccessful and what few
buildings comprised the town either burned down or fell in. According
to the Handbook of Texas even into the early 1970s the former townsite
was referred to as "Little Quincy."
The only thing appearing near the former site is a cemetery marked
as Lost Boy Monument on TxDoT Bee County maps. |
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