Ellwood Farms Records, 1900-1967

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Ellwood Farms Records, 1900-1967

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Land sales from the Ellwood Farms helped open up the South Plains to farmers and increase the population of small rural communities.

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Southwest Collection/Special Collections Libary, Texas Tech University

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Spade Land Company

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Ropesville (Tex.) Rural Resettlement Project

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Ellwood Farms

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Ellwood Farms was formed in 1924 after the death of Isaac L. Ellwood (1833-1910), co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, who had purchased the Spade Ranch in 1891 and the Renderbrook Ranch in 1889. In 1924, the Ellwood Farm Company began selling farm-size plots of Spade Ranch land. The business, based in Lubbock, Texas, for over forty years, was administered by William L. and Erwin P. Ellwood, sons of Isaac L. Ellwood, and by R. C. Hopping and T. B. Zellner. In 1946, the Spade Land Company...

Ellwood, Isaac Leonard, 1833-1910

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Co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, businessman, land owner. Born in 1833 in New York. With his sons, William L. and Erwin P., he began purchasing Texas ranch lands in 1889, including the Spade and Renderbrook ranches. After his death in 1910, his sons, along with A.W. Fisk, managed the estate. Beginning in 1924, portions of the Spade Ranch were sold for farming and colonization. From the description of Isaac L. Ellwood - William L. Ellwood Papers, 1878-1935, 1878-1919. (Tex...

Ellwood Farm Company

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Ellwood Estates

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Formed in 1910 after the death of Isaac L. Ellwood (1833-1910), co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, who purchased the Spade Ranch (located in Lubbock, Hale, Hockley, and Lamb Counties, Texas) in 1891 and the Renderbrook Ranch, located in Mitchell County, Texas, in 1889. The Ellwood Estates were formed from these ranch properties and were administered by Ellwood's sons, William L. (1859-1933) and Erwin P. (1874-?), and A.W. Fisk. Beginning in 1924, the Ellwoods sold portions of the Spade...