Lynn County

For two decades after the Army left, Lynn County was ranch country with almost no people. The 1880 census taker found Ed Ryan and the A. C. McDonnill family raising sheep at Tahoka Lake and John Porter running a one-man ranch at Double Lakes. The Curry Comb and Square and Compass ranches of Garza County spilled over its eastern side, the T-Bar was founded around Double Lakes in 1884, and C. C. Slaughter set up his Tahoka Lake Ranch in 1897. The county had no towns, and counted nine people in 1880, twenty-four in 1890 and seventeen in 1900.

What the plaque says

Lynn County Formed from Young and Bexar territories; created August 21, 1876; organized April 15, 1903. Tahoka, county seat. (1936)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Slaton Harvey House — 18 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.
• Garza County Historical Museum — 24 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.
• Buddy Holly Center — 25 mi
  The city's museum of Buddy Holly and West Texas music in a 1928 railway depot, with the house where the Crickets worked on That'll Be the Day moved next door.
• American Windmill Museum — 25 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

• Tahoka — 3.9 mi
• Lynn County — 4.0 mi
• Site of Mackenzie Cavalry Camp — 8.1 mi
• Grasslands — 13 mi