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EXTENSION EDUCATIONIN LYNN COUNTY


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WELCOME TO LYNN COUNTY!

In December 1902, over 100 people met around a bonfire in a ravine southwest of
Tahoka Lake and voted to petition for county organization and to select a
townsite for a county seat to be named “Tahoka” an Indian word meaning “fresh
water”. Early in 1903 B.G. Sweet, Jack Alley, and W.T. “Bill” Petty organized
the Tahoka Townsite Company. Sweet Surveyed the land and platted the town, and
he and L.E. King established the first mercantile store opposite the southwest
corner of the public square. County elections were held on April 7, 1903, and
the Tahoka post office was opened April 30, with Fannie N. Henderson as
postmaster. Tohoka soon boasted a two-story frame courthouse, a school, two
churches, a hotel, and several businesses, including a newspaper, “The Lynn
County News”, first published on October 9, 1903, by Otis and Inez Lilly. In
1906, a bank (now the County Extension office) and a cotton gin were built. The
Santa Fe Railroad was extended from Slaton to Tahoka in 1910. And for several
years Tahoka was one of the largest cattle shipping points in the Nation. The
community was incorporated on June 13, 1915, and J.E. Stokes was Elected Mayor. 
Today Tahoka serves as a trade center for Lynn County farmers and ranchers.


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