- Huff, Texas
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official_name = Huff, Texas
settlement_type =Ghost town
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footnotes =Huff (also known as Hufftown, and later as Huff Community) is a former town in northeastern Archer County,
Texas ,United States . It is part of theWichita Falls, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.Huff lies adjacent to Lake Creek, mi to km|8 south of Lakeside City, just east off of
Texas State Highway 79 .Minor, David. - [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/hrh45_print.html Huff, Texas] . - "Handbook of Texas ". - Retrieved: 2008-06-18]History
Named for Charles C. Huff, an attorney for the Wichita Falls and Southern Railway (WF&SR). In 1908 the WF&SR founded the town site as a switching site. Next to the tracks the WF&SR 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.
A post office operated at Huff from 1909 to 1913, and there was a blacksmith shop, a general store, and school. By 1936 there was only a school and some scattered dwellings. The town site became a local community center for area cattle ranchers, using the old school as a community center.
Geography
Lakeside City is located at coor dms|33|46|07|N|98|32|14|W|city (33.7687113, -98.5372771).GR|1
References
Bibliography
* Loftin, Jack, and the Archer County Historical Commission, (1979). - "Trails Through Archer: A Centennial History, 1880-1980". - Burnet, Texas: Nortex Press/Eakin Publications. - ISBN 0890152276
* O'Keefe, Ruth Jones, (1969). - "Archer County Pioneers: A History of Archer County". - Hereford, Texas: Pioneer Book Publishers. - OCLC 866802External links
* [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/hrh45_print.html Huff, Texas] - "
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