Fluvanna

The Handbook of Texas places Fluvanna sixty-six miles southeast of Lubbock and says its promoters knew the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific would end here, so the townsite was staked and lots were on sale before the railroad arrived. The town boomed briefly, and by 1911 it had two real estate offices, a thirty-room hotel, a lumberyard and a cotton gin. It had an estimated 500 people in 1915 and 375 in 1920 and 1940. In 1980 Fluvanna had a post office, about 180 people and at least four businesses, and 180 were still reported in 2000.

What the plaque says

Founded 1907 by a realty firm. Named by townsite surveyor, for his native county in Virginia. When Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railroad reached this point in Sept. 1909, a 3-day picnic was held. Buildings at Light, Texas, a mile east, were moved here. Town developed into important cattle shipping point, as long market drives were abandoned. By 1912 had 2 wagon yards and 2 blacksmith shops, among many businesses. Later, shipped much cotton before railroad ceased operating here in 1942. Now a prosperous agricultural community on good highways. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Scurry County Museum — 19 mi
  Snyder's county museum on the Western Texas College campus, with the rifle used to shoot the white buffalo, an 1878 chuckwagon and the millionth barrel of the Canyon Reef oil boom.
• Garza County Historical Museum — 25 mi
  The county museum of Post, C. W. Post's planned town below the Caprock, kept in the stone sanitarium the town opened in 1912 as the best-equipped medical building west of Fort Worth.

More markers nearby

• Dermott — 7.0 mi
• Home County of Famous Frontiersman J. Wright Mooar — 8.8 mi
• The Brazos River in Justiceburg — 11 mi
• The Block 97 Controversy — 14 mi