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King
County 1920s map showing Grow
near Cottle County
line
From Texas state map #10749
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
History
"GROW, TX.
Grow is on Farm Road 1168 some eighty-five miles northeast of Lubbock
in north central King
County. Because many families were settling in the area around
the turn of the century, residents organized a school district in
1901 that extended about five miles in each direction from the settlement.
At that time the community was known as Bala, after a post
office that already existed in the region. Ora Blackwell was the first
teacher at the Bala school, and her sister, Mrs. Charles Davidson,
kept the Bala post office in her home. Bala expanded after Jim Goodwin
built a cotton gin on the site in 1908, and the name of the post office
and school was changed to Grow in 1911 or 1912. The population,
which was estimated at twenty-five during most of the 1920s and 1930s,
was reported as around 150 by 1941, but in the 1950s economic changes
made many farm families move to urban areas. The Grow school eventually
consolidated with that of Guthrie,
and the post office closed in 1930. The population had declined to
eighty-five by 1970, then remained at that level through most of the
1980s. In 1990 it was seventy. The population remained unchanged in
2000."
Edloe A. Jenkins, “Grow, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online,
accessed October 06, 2023, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/grow-tx.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association. |
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King
County 1940s map showing Grow
near Cottle County
line
From Texas state map #4335
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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