| History
in a Pecan Shell
The community was founded on the 10,500-acre John
Quincy ranch. After being purchased in 1891, development began and a post office
was requested and granted.
Acreage was sold to settlers recruited from
Kansas and other states.
A one-teacher school in 1898-99 taught only
13 pupils.
Under-development and a lack of settlers spelled oblivion,
and so the settlement was sold to a San
Antonio business called the Bee County Irrigation Syndicate. They tried to
recruit new settlers, but were unsuccessful and what few buildings comprised the
town either burned down or fell in. According to the Handbook of Texas even into
the early 1970s the former townsite was referred to as "Little Quincy."
The only thing appearing near the former site is a cemetery marked as Lost
Boy Monument on TxDoT Bee County maps.
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