Editing Skellytown, Texas (section)

==History==
Skelly was sited between the oil boom camps of [[Roxana, Texas|Roxana]], which was north of Skelly, and [[Noelette, Texas|Noelette]], which was east. The first businesses were company-owned supply stores. Residents had to gather wood for fuel and rely on trucked-in water supplies.<ref name = "tsha"/>

The Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line north in 1927, from [[White Deer, Texas|White Deer]] to the oilfields, and established its depot at a site just north of Skelly.  All three camps moved their businesses to the new site and formed the Skellytown Townsite Company. Four months later, Skellytown had two oil refineries, a carbon black -manufacturing plant, and about 100 oil wells operating in its vicinity. Also in 1927, a new post office opened, the ''Roxana-Skellytown News'' began publishing every week, Panhandle Power and Light began to provide utilities, and a four-room emergency hospital opened.<ref name = "tsha"/>