Site of Estacado

Estacado outlasted its Quaker colony only barely. Paris Cox died in 1888, and the town lacked leadership after him. Emma took the county seat in 1891, and a grasshopper invasion and drought in 1892 and 1893 all but finished the place; Central Plains Academy, the first college on the Llano Estacado, closed that spring. Newcomers drawn by farmland after 1900 kept a community going, but the post office closed in 1918 and mail came through Petersburg. The count was sixty-eight people in 1930 and eighty-five in 1940.

What the plaque says

Site of Estacado A town founded in 1879 by a colony of English Quakers under the leadership of Isaac Paris Cox who purchased for them 82 sections of land. The town, first named Marietta in honor of Mary Cox, wife of the leader, was renamed Estacado in 1886 when Crosby County was organized. By 1893 the colony had disintegrated. Moved in 1895 to Galveston County. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• American Windmill Museum — 19 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.
• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 20 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.
• Buddy Holly Center — 20 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.

More markers nearby

• Estacado Cemetery — 1.1 mi
• Lorenzo — 5.9 mi
• Farmer Community — 6.4 mi
• Cone Cemetery — 8.6 mi