A small farming community grew up here in the late 1880s and received its name because of a bumper wheat crop in 1890, the year the U.S. Post Office opened. Two postmasters served the community, Minerva Thomas and G.W. McCall. A school that also served as a church was built a half mile west on the southeast corner of an adjoining section of land. When the Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railroad was built through the area in 1907, residents moved two stores and a gin to the newly surveyed townsite of Hermleigh to gain access to the railroad.