Abernathy’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Abernathy. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Santa Fe Railroad wanted to follow a straight line from Plainview to Lubbock. A straight-line survey was run, and it went east of the present site of Abernathy. This route did not please the residents of Hale Center, which had been established since the 1890s. They influenced the Santa Fe to come southwest out of Plainview to serve them, and from there the Santa Fe followed an approximate straight line into Lubbock.
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Start Abernathy’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Abernathy’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewJoseph J. Barton House, National …: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Abernathy, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
Nothing in Abernathy is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Abernathy has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is In Town Inn in Lubbock, 16.6 miles away.
Abernathy and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Joseph J. Barton House, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Abernathy vicinity, TX), Lubbock, Lubbock County,… and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.