Records, 1900-1967.

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Records, 1900-1967.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24189860

Collection bulks with land sales records of the Ellwood Land Company containing deeds, abstracts, liens, correspondence, tax statements, mineral rights deeds, loan applications, foreclosure notices, right of way deeds, and oil leases. Also included are records of other various land-related companies, including the Ropesville Farms Project (also called the Ropesville Resettlement project), and the Spade Land Company.

ca. 237, 000 leaves.

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Ellwood, Erwin Perry, 1874-

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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...

Keeney, R. L.

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Zellner, T. B. (Thomas B.)

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Hopping, R. C. (Richard Coke), 1875-

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Sheriff, judge, land manager, author. Born in Hood County, Texas. Moved to Clovis, New Mexico, in 1901. Lived at Texico-Farwell from 1905-1910, and served as sheriff. Moved to Littlefield, Texas, in 1918 and was county judge for five years. Moved to Lubbock, Texas, in 1924, where he managed Ellwood Estates and the colonization of the Spade Ranch. The Spade Ranch was owned by Isaac Ellwood, and was located in Lamb, Hockley, Hale, and Lubbock Counties of Texas. He also wrote a book, "A Sheriff-Ran...

Ellwood, William L., 1859-1933

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