Editing Hereford, Texas (section)

==History==
[[File:Hereford,_Tex._(25637244773).jpg|thumb|left|upright|Hereford in 1909]]
Hereford was founded as "Blue Water" in 1899 after the [[Pecos and Northern Texas Railway]] connected Amarillo to [[Farwell, Texas|Farwell]]. After a town already named Blue Water was discovered, residents renamed the town "Hereford" in honor of the cattle of the local ranchers and the city, [[Hereford]], in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web | title=Hereford, TX | url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/heh02}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], a [[prisoner-of-war camp]] existed there for Italian prisoners of war. It was dismantled in 1947.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

In 1975, popular high school teacher Wayne Woodward was fired for his efforts to establish a local branch of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]. Mr. Woodward won a subsequent legal suit, that gained national attention, against the [[Hereford Independent School District]]. The events were documented in the 2022 book ''You Will Never Be One of Us'' by Timothy P. Bowman.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Bynum |first1=Katherine |last2=Woodward |first2=Wayne |date=2016-06-09 |title=Oral History Interview with Wayne Woodward, June 9, 2016 |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982471/ |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=texashistory.unt.edu |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Woodward v. Hereford Independent Sch. Dist., 421 F. Supp. 93 (N.D. Tex. 1976) |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/421/93/1769697/ |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=Justia Law |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Paul. |first=Bowman, Timothy |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1334105884 |title=You Will Never Be One of Us : a Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism. |date=July 28, 2022 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-9133-1 |oclc=1334105884}}</ref>

A rich Western heritage includes the Las Escarbadas ranch house of the [[XIT Ranch]], once located southwest of Hereford. The restored historic structure can now be seen at the [[National Ranching Heritage Center]] at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]]. The [[Deaf Smith County Historical Museum]] at 400 Sampson Street in Hereford offers indoor and outdoor exhibits on the settlement of West Texas.

Hereford was once known as the "Windmill City"<ref>{{cite news |author=Hereford Economic Development Corporation |date=August 20, 2020 |title="The Windmill City" |url=https://www.herefordedc.com/what-is-hereford-texas-known-for |location=Hereford, Texas}}</ref> due to its many windmills supplying fresh water from the Ogallala Aquifer.