open education

 

Today only Crosbyton, Ralls and Lorenzo have schools in Crosby County.  The situation was different in the earlier part of the20th century.  Small towns like Emma, Cone and Estacado once  populated the high plains and most built a school house.  The school in Doughtery was built in 1929 but today only partial brick walls still stand.  What looked like a prosperous future in the 1920s faded in the 1930s with the depression, dust bowl and declining cotton production.  The Producers grain elevator towers on the horizon but is also devoid of life and business.  Rural towns are not completely dead but in dire need of life support.

 

Doughtery, Crosby County, Texas

9.21.2013