Village of Cone

The community grew up from 1901 and took its name from early settler James Stanton Cone. "Uncle" Charlie Travis gave land for a school, and the Cone school district was founded on February 14, 1905. Cone had an estimated 150 residents in 1939, after which it shrank; in 1965 its schools were consolidated with those of Ralls. By 1988 the community had a post office, three businesses and fewer than fifty people, and the 2000 count was seventy.

What the plaque says

Village of Cone Named in 1903 for S. E. Cone, who helped carry mail here from the nearby town of Emma. Post Office was established same year in general store of R. E. Chapman, who became the first Postmaster. Town once had a school, stores, and churches. Now center of irrigated section, which produces cotton, sorghum grains, and wheat. 1969

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 13 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.
• Silent Wings Museum — 27 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.
• Slaton Harvey House — 28 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.
• American Windmill Museum — 29 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

• Cone Cemetery — 2.0 mi
• Farmer Community — 4.1 mi
• Floyd County — 6.9 mi
• The Battle of Blanco Canyon — 6.9 mi