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West of this location stood the now abandoned community of Blackdom, founded circa 1908 by Francis Marion Boyer and his wife Ella. Several dozen African American families homesteaded nearly 15,000 acres of land and built a self-sustaining community that included a general store and a Baptist Church. Officially platted in 1920, the community was eventually abandoned because of continued problems with irrigation from the distant Pecos River.
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