Huff, Texas
Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Huff (also known as Hufftown, and later as Huff Community) is a ghost town in northeastern Archer County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Huff lies adjacent to Lake Creek, Script error: No such module "convert". south of Lakeside City, just east of Texas State Highway 79.[1]
History
The town was named for Charles C. Huff, an attorney for the Wichita Falls and Southern Railway. In 1908, the railroad founded the town site as a switching site. Next to the tracks, they built a giant concrete cistern that held a rail tank car-full of water that the railroad hauled in for the community's source of fresh water.[1]
A post office operated at Huff from 1909 to 1913, as did a blacksmith shop, a general store, and a school. By 1936, only a school and some scattered dwellings remained. The town site became a gathering place for area cattle ranchers, using the old school as a community center.[1]
Geography
Lakeside City is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (33.830714,-98.538943).[2]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b c Minor, David. - Huff, Texas. - Handbook of Texas. - Retrieved: 2008-06-18
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Further reading
- Loftin, Jack, and the Archer County Historical Commission, (1979). - Trails Through Archer: A Centennial History, 1880-1980. - Burnet, Texas: Nortex Press/Eakin Publications. - Template:ISBN
- O'Keefe, Ruth Jones, (1969). - Archer County Pioneers: A History of Archer County. - Hereford, Texas: Pioneer Book Publishers. - OCLC 866802
External links
Script error: No such module "Navbox".