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To help familiarize you with this fine
neighborhood, please read our brief history about Snyder,
TX. It’s interesting.
A Brief History of Snyder, Texas
Snyder, the county seat of Scurry
County, is at the junction of U.S. highways 84 and 180,
eighty-seven miles southeast of Lubbock in the central
part of the county. It had its beginnings in 1878, when a
buffalo hunter and trader, William Henry (Pete) Snyder,qv
a native of Pennsylvania, built a trading post on the
banks of Deep Creek. Other hunters were attracted to the
post, and a colony of buffalo-hide dwellings grew up
around it. These dwellings, as well as the occasionally
dubious character of their inhabitants, gave the town its
first names, "Hide Town," and "Robber's Roost." In 1882
Snyder drew up a town plan and invited immigration. The
first public school was established sometime that year. In
1884, when Scurry County was organized, Synder's
settlement was chosen as the county seat. By 1892 Snyder
had a population of 600, two churches, two banks, a steam
gin, a gristmill, and two weekly newspapers, the Scurry
County Citizen and the Coming West.
Construction began on the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific
Railway in 1907, the same year that Snyder's city charter
was granted. In 1911 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway laid tracks through Snyder. By 1910, the first
year census figures were recorded for Snyder, the town had
a population of 2,514.

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