Grasslands

Grasslands Ranch, on one of the first land patents in South Plains and along a well-marked Indian trail later used by explorers, the U.S. Army, and after 1880 the stages and freighters northbound from Colorado City, was established in 1888 by Enos L. Seeds, the postmaster from 1889 to 1900, who built a fine frame house and the first trading post on South Plains. Named for an estate of President Cleveland, the ranch was home to Mrs. Seeds, the county's first permanent white woman resident. Nearby is the grave of the area's firstborn white child, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Todd Wilson. The community is now called Grassland.

Texas · United States