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Hart, TX RoadyGoat

Hart, Texas. It's a place where the horizon stretches forever, a testament to the cotton and grain fields that feed this town. The high altitude here means the summers aren’t quite as brutal as you might expect, a welcome change that locals appreciate after a long day working the land. You can feel the history in the air, a quiet sense of connection to the past. There's a time capsule buried here from 1976, still waiting to be opened, full of stories we haven't heard yet. But Hart isn't just about the land and its history; it's also about the people who came from here.

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Hart, TX RoadyGoat

Hart, Texas, sits high on the plains, a little pocket of relative coolness thanks to its elevation. It's easy to drive through on Highway 194 and think it's just another small farming town, but there's a deeper story etched into the land here. The arrival of the railroad, pushed along by Oliver Hart’s development plans, allowed for widespread irrigation. That changed everything. Suddenly, cotton and grain could flourish in a way they never had before, and Hart became a center for agricultural processing and shipping. That's what drew people initially, the promise of making a living from the land. That connection to the land still defines Hart today. You see it in the way folks talk about the weather, the crops, and the challenges of farming. It's in the fierce pride for the Hart High School football team and their playoff runs—a point of unity in a close-knit community. And there's a quiet, enduring spirit here. Maybe it's the altitude, maybe it's the vast open spaces, but life moves at a different pace in Hart. And, of course, there's that time capsule buried back in '76, a little piece of the past waiting to be rediscovered.

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Hart, TX RoadyGoat

Hart, Texas, sits high on the plains at over 3,600 feet, a fact that makes all the difference in the summer heat. Founded in 1917 and named for Oliver Hart, a land developer with a vision, the town owes its existence to the railroad and the promise of irrigated farming. That promise was kept, and the land around Hart bloomed with cotton and grain. The soil became the lifeblood of the community, a source of hard work, shared harvests, and a deep connection to the earth that still defines the place. The quiet you feel in Hart today isn't just peaceful, it's history settling in. There's a time capsule buried back in '76, holding memories of a different era, still waiting to be opened. The echoes of Friday night lights at Hart High School, where the football team has battled its way into state playoffs more than once, still ring in the air. Highway 194 runs right through it, but you get the sense that the real heart of Hart lies not on the road, but in the fields, in the stories, and in the people who call this high plains town home.

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Nazareth, TX

1902

Nazareth, a small farming community, is in east central Castro County at the intersection of State Highway 86 and Farm Road 168, fifty-eight miles south of Amarillo. The town was established through the efforts of a Catholic priest, Joseph Reisdorff , who moved to the site in 1902 with four farmers interested in purchasing land in the area. Father Reisdorff named his colony after the biblical Nazareth and advertised for settlers in several midwestern German Catholic newspapers. By September 1902 the first settlers had begun to arrive. A post office was established in 1903, and later that year the Catholic community finished building its first church. Nazareth had seventy-one residents by January 1904, and the town was platted latter that year. By 1905, in addition to the church, the settlement included a blacksmith shop, a store, and a school; when the community's cemetery was consecrated in 1906, it became the only Catholic cemetery in the area. For many years local church officials supplied what little government the community required. In 1914 Nazareth had an estimated 50 residents, and about 150 people were living there by 1927. During the 1930s the area was swept by huge dust storms that uprooted crops and made farming unprofitable; in 1933, the town was estimated to have only 50 residents. Agriculture in Castro county revived during the 1940s, however, and by 1941 about 200 people were living there. The population fluctuated during the 1950s and 1960, dropping to about 75 in 1955, then rising to an estimated 275 by 1964; the census found 274 people living in the town in 1970 and 299 in 1980. As late as the mid-1980s about 85 percent of the town's residents were Catholics, and church activities helped to bond the community together. In 1990 the population stood at 293. The population grew to 356 in 2000.

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Holy Family Catholic Church

1890

The history of Holy Family Catholic Church parallels that of the town of Nazareth. The families of brothers V. A., J. A., and T. P. McCormick and other Irish families came to this area from New York in the early 1890s. The Rev. Joseph Reisdorff arrived in 1902 to establish a Catholic parish. Advertising in German-language newspapers in the U.S. Midwest, he induced many German Catholic families to settle here. Reisdorff named the new town Nazareth. An important part of the area's development, the church remains a focal point of community activities. (1987)

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Sunnyside, TX (Castro County)

1960

Sunnyside is on U.S. Highway 385 fifteen miles south of Dimmitt in Castro County. It was founded in 1912 when two rural schools, Axtell and Roush (both named after area settlers), were merged at a central location. The site originally was included in the XIT Ranch lands and later in the William E. Halsell survey. Another area resident, Jeff Gilbreath, named the school Sunnyside because of the climate and also because he had lived near Sunnyside, Tennessee. The Sunnyside Baptist Church was organized in this school in 1921. Four years later a new brick facility replaced the original building, and a church was constructed on the other side of the road. A store was built in 1930. Lack of water was a frequent problem, and Sunnyside suffered badly during the Dust Bowl . In 1935 R. E. Cade drilled the area's first deep irrigation well two miles east of Sunnyside. Other farmers soon followed suit; by 1971 at least one deep well was to be found on every area farm. In 1941 the Rural Electrification Administration assisted in bringing electric power to the area. The Sunnyside school ceased operations in 1942, and in 1945 the Sunnyside School District was partitioned among Dimmitt, Springlake, and Hart. Nevertheless, the community lived on. In 1951 a cotton gin was built, and El Paso Natural Gas established a booster plant and a ten-family housing unit just south of the county line. On April 12, 1960, a tornado demolished several buildings, killed three, and injured sixty. However, the residents, with help from neighboring towns and churches, soon built back. The Lions Club turned a store building into a community center in 1972 and in 1979 provided the community with fire-fighting equipment. Since then the club has hosted an annual Fourth of July celebration, complete with fireworks. With a new church and a gin and five other businesses, Sunnyside reported a population of 106 in 1980 and 1990. The population dropped to eighty by 2000.

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Summerfield-Dameron Corner

1876

In 1876, English native John Summerfield (1885-1918) began his work locating and surveying millions of acres of land in present-day Randall, Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. One of the earth monuments he erected that year was located near this site and became a starting point for surveys in many Panhandle counties. In 1925, a group of Castro County citizens placed a concrete monument at the site, which had become known as Dameron's Corner after a local landowner. The monument was buried in 1958 when a road was cut through the area. (1985)

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Easter, TX

1901

Easter is on Farm Road 2397 two miles east of Farm Road 1055 in northwestern Castro County. It was named for William Frank Easter, who settled there in the early 1900s. In 1901 he donated the land on which a one-room schoolhouse was built. This school was disbanded in 1912 but then reopened in 1915. Church services and Sunday school classes were held there. A new two-room school was built across the road north of the first structure in 1919 and 1920 and was subsequently enlarged. After the building burned in 1940, the Easter school district was consolidated with the Dimmitt schools, twenty miles southeast. A combination church and community center was built on the site but was later moved away and remodeled into a private residence. During the 1950s a grain elevator, a fertilizer shop, and a cotton gin were built at the townsite. Community spirit was revived with the organization of the Easter Lion's Club in 1965; in 1967 the club built a new community building two miles west on Farm Road 1055. Since then the annual Easter "Oprey," along with other special events, has been held there. A grocery store near the gin also operated a hamburger stand. Mail was delivered to the community from Hereford. In 1984 and 1990 Easter reported a population of ninety-one. The population dropped to thirty in 2000.

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Arney School

1901

Among the early settlers in northeast Castro County were George and Jim Arney, two brothers from Missouri, for whom Arney community was named. A school was started in 1901 for the children of settlers and ranch hands. The first schoolhouse, a one-room frame structure, also housed services of Arney Baptist Church, which was organized in 1905. Arney School operated until 1953, when it was consolidated with other districts. The school building then served as a community center and polling place. (1985)

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