Love Bug-Whiteface Scalloped Wood

Please drop this item in rural OR Premium Member Only caches.  Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish.  No permission is needed to leave the U.S.

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This is one of a series of heart-shaped items obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs. They are named either for the places of their origin or for Texas Panhandle-South Plains towns with interesting names or histories.

Whiteface is forty-five miles west of Lubbock in east central Cochran County.  The name of the town came from rancher C. C. Slaughter's Whiteface Camp and Pasture, which was the breed of cattle pastured at that location.   In 1924 Ira P. DeLoach staked off the townsite and in September he held a barbecue to help sell farmlands and town lots.   In 1925 Whiteface residents moved their town some four or five miles to be on the South Plains and Santa Fe Railway, which was then being completed from Lubbock to Bledsoe. 

The new townsite was originally the ranch headquarters of J. C. Whaley, who donated land for the town. Because the well at the location made a convenient railroad stop, the company built a depot and provided houses for its agent and foreman.  In 1925 C. W. Word brought his family to the settlement, where they lived in a tent and furnished meals for the railroad workers.  Whaley built a one-room schoolhouse that was ready in time for the fall semester in 1925.   Word established a post office in 1925, with Mrs. Word as postmistress.   A paved road from Levelland to Whiteface, completed in 1928, contributed to the prosperity of the community. In 1937 oil was discovered in the Slaughter fields south of the town. 

Whiteface reached its peak population in 1941, with an estimated 600 residents.  The town's population declined during the 1950s and 1960s, and by 1978 it was estimated at 365 residents. In 1980 it had increased to 463. The Santa Fe Railroad line through the town was abandoned late in 1983. In 1990 the population was 512. The population dropped to 465 in 2000.