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History in a Pecan
Shell
Roscoe was another of the towns built as the Texas & Pacific
Railroad built westward toward Sierra
Blanca. The name Vista was first used in 1881 but the following year when
a post office was applied for, the name Roscoe was submitted - and accepted. The
namesake is not known.
Roscoe got a shot in the arm in 1894 when a nearby
railroad shipping pen was flooded and the operation moved the half-mile to Roscoe.
In 1880 the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad was formed and work began on the
50-mile route. When completed, the railroad connected the larger lines of the
Santa Fe and the Texas & Pacific railroads. The Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific operated
with a profit almost from its inception through the 1970s but in the mid-1980s
the track was taken up. From a population of 1,166 in 1940, Roscoe increased to
a high of 1,628 in 1980 before decreasing slightly to the present 1,378. |
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