Lorenzo

Lorenzo Dow secured title to the townsite on April 2, 1910, and that July the Crosbyton-South Plains Townsite Company took it over and hired H. E. Smith to survey the town and sell lots. Viola Ellison held the first school classes in September 1911 in a store the C. B. company had built, and Alice McGuire opened the post office that year, keeping it until 1920. W. E. McLaughlin started the first bank in 1914 and Clay Dunlap the first garage. Lorenzo had 739 people in 1930 and 935 in 1950.

What the plaque says

Lorenzo Founded when Crosbyton-South Plains Railway ran first train here, April 10, 1911. Named for Lorenzo Dow, employee of C. B. Livestock Company, which promoted the town, and in 1914 encouraged area to plant cotton. Incorporated in 1924. Now a center of cotton growing, with fine churches, school, businesses. 1966

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Slaton Harvey House — 17 mi
  A 1912 Santa Fe Harvey House in the railroad town of Slaton, restored as a museum, event hall and five-room inn overlooking a working BNSF yard.
• Silent Wings Museum — 17 mi
  The museum of the American combat glider pilots of World War II, in Lubbock's old airport terminal on the field where most of them earned their wings.
• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 17 mi
  Crosbyton's museum of Blanco Canyon, built in 1958 as a copy of Hank Smith's Rock House, and the place to learn the canyon's 1871 fight between Mackenzie's cavalry and Quanah's Quahadi Comanche.
• American Windmill Museum — 18 mi
  Lubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.

More markers nearby

• Estacado Cemetery — 5.0 mi
• John Robinson Ralls — 7.8 mi
• Ralls Cemetery — 7.8 mi
• Emma Cemetery — 8.2 mi