Lockney Sugar Beet Capital of Texas Spotlight
The Amarillo Globe News profiles Lockney Floyd County detailing irrigation wealth with 500 wells, 1000 to 1800 gallons a minute, crops from sugar beets to cotton and wheat, a debt free town with a municipal water system and new electric motors, and a thriving civic and school system led by Mayor T. Z. Reed and local figures.
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Tri-State
Amarillo
Rio Grande Valley
Lockney
Texas
Floyd County
Lockney's Rise From Frontier Settlement to County Town
Floyd County history recounts Lockney founded in 1889 near Delta Plains as a rival town. J H Lockney and partners owned four 160 acre tracts forming a square, laid out by H C Knight. The town was renamed Lockney, with later development of schools churches and businesses as populate grew.
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Baker
Lockney
Edgar R. Hays
H. B. Clemons
Jim Stark
Floyd County
Delta Plains
W. L. Covey
W. R. Davis
R. M. Emerson
H. C. Knight
Crosby County
Knight
J. H. Lockney
J. F. Lockney
Lockney Christian College
S. W. Smith
C. W. Smith
J. D. Burleson
Sadie Burleson
Uvalde
Arthur B. Duncan
George M. Swink
Floydada
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Petal
Lima
Lockney Area
Erstai
Polk &T
Jack King
API
Polk St
Taylor St
South Plains
T. Z. Reed
J. D. Copeland
Consumers Fuel
Dwight Jackson
Jackson Tire Co
Henry Ford
Ford- Busby Motor Co
J. M. Floyd
Jake Smith
Carl McAdams
Reed
Dorsey Baker
First National Bank
Lamar
Colo
Plainview
Sally Griffith
Lockney Territory
Alice Baker
Jim Baker
Territory
Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Denver
H. B. Clemmons
Lockney’s
Lockney Grew
Avalon
Zale
Public Service Company
McDavid Bros
Polk
Howdy, Lockney
Blackburn Bros
Ture
Blackburn’s
Blackburn ‘Bros
Betty Br
White & Kirk
Irsenal Shoppe
Dear Ladies of
Ward
Panhandle
J.B. Coe Lumber Co
Lincoln
Lars
Franks Barber & Beauty Supply Us
Chevrolet
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