Henry Clay Smith

Henry Clay Smith was the first to set up a post office and to farm in Crosby County, and the first to break land and drill a water well on the High Plains. At the start of the Civil War, he was a miner at Pinos Altos, New Mexico, and joined moves to take gold and silver mines for the South, but Indian raids closed the mines. When the Confederate Army withdrew from Arizona and Mexico in 1861, Smith and others joined the South's cause. He served four years in Texas and spent the rest of his life there. A replica of the old rock house he built near here in 1877 is now shown in a museum at Crosbyton.

Crosbyton, Texas · United States