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PLAINVIEW RETAIL LOCATIONS
Pinnell Drug
Pinnell Drug is the local Plainview Texas drug store selling drugs, gifts, Texas Greeting Cards and other generic greeting cards and is one friendly place to shop. "Y'all come on by for a little visit, you hear!" - Says, Caddylak Maxy.
 
 
A Little About Plainview Texas
The city of Plainview is located on the beautiful Plains in the heart of West Texas. This community of 22,000 offers many of the amenities of larger cities, yet Plainview manages to do so while maintaining a hearty hometown feel. Plainview adjoins I-27 with Amarillo to the North and Lubbock to the South.
Hale County and the Texas High Plains are one of the last frontiers and one of the earliest habitats of North American man.
The history of man in this great plateau is known to trace as far as 5,000 to 7,000 years before the birth of Christ. Those early "West Texans" were nomadic tribesman whose entire life was the pursuit of the great bison, depending on the massive animals for food, clothing, shelter and the symbols of religion.
In the 16th Century Coronado and Cortez passed through this country, perhaps watering at Running Water Draw, as they made their exploratory searches for gold, silver, and new places to claim for their sovereign. They named this area the Llano Estacado.
Buffalo hunters, cattleman and a few settlers began wandering westward. Between them and what they sought stood the Comanche Indians; fierce, proud nomads who were said by military men of their time to be the greatest light Calvary that ever existed.
In the early 1870's General Randall Slidell Mackenzie would lead the 4th U.S. Calvary through West Texas to finally chase down and end the reign of the last great Comanche war chief, Quanah Parker, the son of a Comanche chief and captured farm girl Cynthia Parker.
Hale County was legally created in 1876 and named for Lt. John C. Hale, a hero of the battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution. Texas cattlemen began looking for more rangeland. Men like Col. C.C. Slaughter, a businessman, Indian fighter, rancher and one of the greatest promoters the early Texas Cattle industry ever had. Men like T.W. and T.N. Morrison and W.D. Johnson who put together Hale County's first ranching operation. They brought with them the Circle L and XIT.
Settlers and farmers were already arriving by the time Slaughter and the Morrison brothers put together their Running Water Land and Cattle Company in 1883. Only three years later Z.T. Maxwell staked out a quarter section of land around the Hackberry Groves, his friend, Edwin L. Lowe, and attorney and former Arkansas legislator, appeared to claim an adjacent quarter section. The next year the two of them established the town site of Plainview and one Thornton Jones arrived to set up the new population center's first grocery store in a tent.
By 1888, there were enough people for Hale County to move from legal existence to an organized county with Plainview as the county seat.
From there the transition from dugouts along the draw to a young, yet modern city, was in tems of most historical things almost instantaneous. The city had schools in 1889, doctors in 1890 and its first bank by 1900.
With the influx of ideas the city quickly became a cultural center for the area.
In 1907 the railroad arrived and the rest of the world had the kind of easy access that would make another major event truly significant.
Underlying that sometimes harsh weather was the availability of water from the vast aquifer which in the early days drew water so close to the top of the soil that the low places, like Running Water Draw, always carried water and a water well often amounted to nothing more than driving a pipe into the ground and putting a windmill over it.
In 1910, some civic leaders decided that irrigation from that underground water source was the way to success. A local banker, J.H. Slaton, agreed to underwrite a test well on his land and a couple of well drillers, G.E. Green and J.N. McNaughton, set to work. In 1911, from 130 feet below the surface, the Slaton Well began pumping 1,700 gallons of clean, pure water per minute. Green followed up by developing an irrigation pump that could be run off an automobile engine, a device that made modern irrigation financially possible for the West Texas farmer.
With rail service and with water, the boom was on.
Plainview was already a small modern city. It had quality schools, two colleges, an opera house, a modern courthouse and a great deal more. When land promoters began seriously selling the irrigated paradise that surrounded the city.
W.P. Soash in the Midwest and the Texas Land & Development Company based in Plainview spread the word of clear, flat, fertile land with plenty of water. They hauled people in by rail passenger car from all over the country, loaded then in touring cars and took them out to see their could-be home. Texas Land & Development Company actually went so far as to build its own lake near the Santa Fe Station, a lake fed almost entirely by underground water and demonstrating the company hoped, how much water there was in this seemingly semi-arid land.
The salesmanship worked and Plainview boomed only to be slowed by the horror of the Great Depression, and then to be revitalized by a renewed boom in the years after World War II when irrigated farming truly took hold and modern farm equipment made large-scale cash crop farming truly possible.
Plainview is now the heart of one of the country's most productive agricultural areas and, as a city, it was also begun to make the transition from being a strictly agricultural oriented center of commerce to offering a diversity of business and industry opportunities.
Plainview is old enough and mature enough to recognize and appreciate its roots, but it is also young enough to still consider itself a place of opportunity for anyone with frontier spirit enough to take advantage of the opportunities.
Plainview's progressive attitude toward business and industry is only enhanced by its excellent quality of life. It's the kind of place where neighbor helps neighbor and no one's a stranger. So come for a visit or stay a while.. either way you will see why we are proud to call Plainview home! "So unbuckle your spurs, kick off your boots and come set a while because this little town is a nice place to visit especially if you visit pinnell Drug Store!" -Says, Caddylak Maxy.
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Last Update: Friday July 27, 2007 1:10 P.M.
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