Perico or Farewell - Texas Ghost Town

PERICO or FAREWELL

NAME: Perico or Farewell
COUNTY: Dallum
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 1
CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Winter, spring, fall

COMMENTS: Very few residents.
REMAINS: A few abandoned buildings. UPDATE:

I was driving on Highway 287 a few weeks ago and noticed that the only thing remaining of the original town of Perico is the old school gymnasium with all the windows broken out. Everything else from the original town is gone.
However, the grain elevator and a mobile home across the highway are still there.

Jim Foreman

The town had its beginning about 1888 as a siding on the railroad in Dallam County. At that time, the town was known as Farewell. In 1905, the railroad was asked to change the name to Perico and the railroad complied. At the time, much of the ranch land in Dallam County was being sub-divided and sold to farmers for agricultural purposes. As agriculture boomed, towns were settled to serve the farmers and Perico was one of those towns. When farmers began entering the territory early in the 1900s, Perico prospered and became the educational center in the vicinity. It was not unusual for small rural towns to suffer as improved highway transportation drew trade to more populous towns. Perico was no exception. Although the town had about forty residents as late as the 1960s, it is today a ghost town with almost all its buildings vacant or in ruins. The town lies alongside the Fort Worth and Denver tracks on U.S. Highway 87 about 11 miles southeast of Texline. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth	Perico post office Courtesy Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas

The town had its beginning about 1888 as a siding on the railroad in Dallam County. At that time, the town was known as Farewell. In 1905, the railroad was asked to change the name to Perico and the railroad complied. At the time, much of the ranch land in Dallam County was being sub-divided and sold to farmers for agricultural purposes. As agriculture boomed, towns were settled to serve the farmers and Perico was one of those towns. When farmers began entering the territory early in the 1900s, Perico prospered and became the educational center in the vicinity. It was not unusual for small rural towns to suffer as improved highway transportation drew trade to more populous towns. Perico was no exception. Although the town had about forty residents as late as the 1960s, it is today a ghost town with almost all its buildings vacant or in ruins. The town lies alongside the Fort Worth and Denver tracks on U.S. Highway 87 about 11 miles southeast of Texline. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

Perico post office
Courtesy Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas

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