Bovina, Texas
Bovina Main Street 1906
Bovina is on U.S. Highway 60 between two forks of Running Water Draw in western Parmer County. Originally the community was the Hay Hook Line Camp of the XIT Ranch, and the ranch headquarters was one of the county's earliest buildings.
About Bovina, TX
A switch on the Pecos and Northern Texas Railroad in 1898 was called "Bull Town" by train crews because a herd of bulls had a habit of getting on the railroad track near a cottonseed warehouse, and the trains would have to stop while the crew drove the animals from the track. When the name was officially bestowed, it was given the Latin word for "bull" or Bovina in order to dignify the name. Bovina was one of the largest cattle shipping points in the United States at the turn of the century.
Bovina started on its career with about a dozen souls, a general store, a livery barn, and a barber shop and section house where borders were accommodated with meals.
Bovina School 1919. The first school in Bovina was an adobe building built in 1905.
Bovina Early 1900s
Drummers, traveling salesmen in Bovina, TX, dated March 24, 1906. Harold Carpenter donated this photo from Mrs. McKay. She is the child on the horse