ALLAMOORE
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NAME: Allamoore COUNTY: Hudspeth ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Never a problem BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime |
COMMENTS:
Allamoore. Post office 1884/ 1886 post office 1888/ 1896 post office 1898/1914 REMAINS: Lots of ruins. Some homes. |
| Allamoore. (allamore, carrizo) is a ranching community on the missouri pacific rr just north of interstate 10 and us highway 80, 22 mi se of sierra blanca in se hudspeth county. A post office under the name of acme was established there in 1884 with robert b. Mcgrew as postmaster. It closed in 1886, but a new one opened two years later under the name allamoore, after the postmistress, mrs. All r. Moore. At that time the community consisted of 'mining and stock camps'. In 1890 the town had 200 inhabitants. The hazel mine in nearby culberson county was for several decades among the most productive silver and copper mines in texas. The post office closed in 1896, but two years later a third post office, called allamoore, was established. By 1914 the population of the settlement had fallen to ten, in the mid 1920's the population was estimated at 25. A rock crushing plant owned by gifford hill and company was operating five mies east of town in 1938.From the mid 1940's to the mid 1960's the population was estimated at 75; it subsequently dropped to 50. At that time allamoore comprised scattered dwellings and a church. The church was originally catholic; it was subsequently deeded to the episcopal dioceese in el paso , but was closed. The church was purchased by sam mcwhorter and martha conoly of van horn in 1983, when it was converted to a residence and resold.During the 1960's a local rancher reportedly paid a teacher to sit in the empty one-room schoolhouse , just in case a student happened to walk in. The pioneer talc company opened at allamoore in 1960 and the westtex talc company in 1971, but the latter was gone by the mid 1970's, and gifford-hill rock crusher apparently ceased operation in the early 1980's. By 1988 the allamoore school had the smallest enrollment of all texas schools; only eight children from the ten families scattered throughout the district's 2100 square miles attended. Submitted by: Samuel w McWhorter |
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