Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban counties — with investment.
GOMEZ — The railroad changed everything. Long before the open plains were filled with rows of crops, they were brimming with the hopes of prosperity from families who flocked to Gomez . It was the first settlement in Terry County , just southwest of Lubbock in the Texas South Plains . Businesses opened, a cotton gin ushered in agriculture production, and a vote was coming up to name a county seat. The founders, in 1904, boasted Gomez was the “metropolis of the plains.” Then it all vanished.
“Then you get all the businesses that come with it.” The resources in Lubbock make it an anchor city, a place with institutions that have a big effect on a city’s quality of life. This is the same for urban cities like Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, and midsize cities like Amarillo, Lubbock, Odessa, and others, which are all considered anchors in their regions.
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