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History
in a Pecan Shell
The town was named for landowner Frank Judkins and
was established as a station on the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1880. Early settlement
included German farmers who transmigrated from East
Texas.
Judkins had its own post office by 1905 .The drought of 1910
brought farming to an abrupt halt and the would-be farmers went looking for greener
and wetter pastures.
There were only fifteen people left in 1920 - the
year an oil boom materialized. Judkins "second chance" was lost when most of the
new residents moved on to the brighter lights of Penwell
- just four miles distant.
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