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From the Dust Bowl to drought to urbanization, the rural demographics of the South Plains are shifting. People are moving off the farms and into the larger towns and cities. While the population of Hale County is relatively steady at around 36,000, those folks no longer live in the country or places like Cotton Center or Halfway. Abandoned houses dot the landscape. There was a uniformity of construction types in the 1930s and 40; many residences were lath and plaster. As deterioration occurs, the layers are revealed --- from the exterior stucco to chicken wire to felt to wood lath.
County Road K
Hale County, Texas
Ask your dad if those houses were originally wood--box and strip or other weatherboard, and then stuccoed during the Dirty Thirties or the Filthy Fifties?
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