Editing Toyah, Texas (section)

==History==
On October 25, 1906<ref name="lynch"/> a black man in Toyah named J.I. "Slab" Pitts was dragged to death and then hanged for living with his white wife, Eva Ruff.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://strangefruitandspanishmoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/october-26-1906-slab-pitt.html|title=Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: October 26, 1906: "Slab" Pitt|last=Last|first=Anne M.|date=September 10, 2015|website=Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss|access-date=December 6, 2019}}</ref><ref name="lynch">{{cite web|title=Lynching of "Slab" Pitts|url=http://www.lynchingintexas.org/items/show/80|access-date=November 29, 2019}}</ref>

In September 1928, [[Amelia Earhart]] made an unscheduled five-day stop to adjust her carburetor. She relates in her journal that she landed in a small town near [[Pecos, Texas]], but according to a regional book, ''The Toyah Taproots'', several local, unnamed youngsters were seen in pictures around her airplane were later identified as being from Toyah.<ref name="earhart">{{cite web|title=Amelia Earhart in Toyah TX|url= http://www.texasescapes.com/15MinutesOfSeparation/Ignacy-Paderewski-and-Amelia-Earhart-in-Toyah-Texas.htm}}</ref>

Much of the town was destroyed by a tornado in 2004. Several abandoned homes, a deserted volunteer fire department and forgotten cars sit on the empty streets. Toyah High School also remains.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}