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Heckville is an unincorporated community located on the high plains of the Llano Estacado about northeast of Lubbock or north of Idalou in northeastern Lubbock County, Texas. This small town was named after Henry Heck, who built a cotton gin to serve the community in 1948.〔Fred Tarpley, 1001 Texas Place Names (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980〕〔Charles G. Davis, "Heckville, TX," Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrh52, accessed December 26, 2011, Published by the Texas State Historical Association.〕 Heckville is located at the point where Farm to Market Road 400 intersects the tracks of the former Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway that extended from Estelline to Lubbock. Unfortunately, the BNSF Railway, which last owned and operated the former Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway, abandoned and permanently removed the tracks in 1989.〔William C. Billingsley, "Fort Worth and Denver Railway," Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqf03, accessed December 26, 2011, Published by the Texas State Historical Association.〕 Heckville has never been a large town: the community has never reported a population of more than twenty.〔 Today, all that remains are rusting grain elevators, numerous large warehouses, the remnants of a cotton gin, an abandoned country store, and a large and still active egg farm operation that produces 180,000 eggs per day.〔Michael Slother, "Local egg rancher talks safety, business after recall". http://www.kcbd.com/story/13052283/local-egg-rancher-talks-safety-business-after-recall , 8/26/2010.〕 ==See also== *Becton, Texas *Estacado, Texas *Llano Estacado *Mount Blanco *West Texas 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heckville, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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