Ronda
Ronda was on Farm Road 2326 just north of Beaver
Creek and ten miles southeast of Harrold in southeastern Wilbarger County.
The
community developed in the early 1880s, and a cemetery had been
established by 1881. A post office opened in 1889 with Alfred
T. Bailey as postmaster. By the time a school opened in 1893,
the settlement of about seventy-five people had the post office,
a store, and scattered houses. The post office was moved to Harrold
in 1907, and the store closed. The school served a large district
until it was consolidated with the Harrold school in 1929.
In
1986 nothing remained of the settlement except the cemetery.
Source: Wilbarger County Historical Commission,
Wilbarger County (Lubbock, 1986).
|