McAdoo, Dickens County, Texas

 I, Jenk Stephenson, refer to McAdoo as my hometown, even though I moved away from there when I was 12 years old.  I still had family living there and would go back many times, even living with my uncle a couple of summers.  When I lived there it was a very small but vibrant little town.  The pictures below were taken many years later (March 2022) and McAdoo is now almost a ghost town. I have no family there anymore, except in the cemetery.  My grandfather bought and cleared land (160 acres) there in 1916, making it into a farm.  My father was born there on the the farm and later purchased three 80 acre farms nearby.  We moved in 1958 and he sold two of the farms, and selling the last 80 acres in 1965. 

Entering the small town of McAdoo	The Morris Farms Building - I went to school with Larry Morris	Looking at McAdoo from the cemetery
There use to be two working cotton gins.  This is all that remains of the last one.	This is all that remains on my grandfather's farm--the windmill and overhead tank.  My father erected that windmill in about 1949.	My father's farm was about a mile down that road.  Grandfather's farm on the left
On the road looking north to my grandfather's farm	Fence post next to the road	I'm confident this is the same fence that was there in 1958 when I moved away.
I went to the only school in McAdoo	McAdoo plaque on the school grounds	The remains of the Noble Neff Butan company
The original telephone	The remains of the old Post Office.  See the flag pole	Ok, I took two picture of the Post Office
Tex Dickinson's Grocery store	Old tractor on the school grounds