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PEARL,
TEXAS
AKA Pearl City, Texas
Collingsworth County, Texas
Panhandle
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History
in a Pecan ShellPearl’s
brief life was totally associated with the 1890 election for a Collingsworth County
seat of government. The candidates were Aberdeen,
Wellington and Pearl.
The name for the
would-be county seat comes from Pearl Kennedy, the daughter of J. S. Kennedy,
a Fort Worth land promoter.
Early in 1890 it appeared as if Pearl was
a shoe-in for county seat. Kennedy stacked the deck by bringing in “prospective”
settlers - who may or may not have become permanent residents. A school was built
as well as a saloon (perhaps to celebrate a victory).
As election day approached,
Wellington was aided by a business faction from
Childress. Kennedy raised the pot by offering
a town lot to every voter if Pearl won, but Wellington trumped that offer with
a bigger prize - five town lots for each voter.
After Wellington
won the election, Pearl faded almost immediately while Aberdeen
managed to hang on into the 1960s when it finally became a full-fledged ghost
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