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History and Background
Lake Plainview was built in 1913 in the city of Plainview, Texas by the TLDC (Texas Land and Development Company) as a selling point for irrigated farms in the area. The company wanted a functioning irrigation well within sight of the railroad so that arriving passengers would be able to see how well their product functioned. On July first of 1913, the lake had reached its water capacity which had a depth of 5 to 6 feet. The company also imported various species of exotic birds and stocked the lake with bass and catfish in an effort to create more attraction to the well fed lake. Lake Plainview soon became the largest lake supplied by a well in Texas. The lake was very popular but also very expensive to maintain. In 1917, just four years after its creation, a fire broke out in the pump house and permanently incapacitated the pump which led to the lake going dry.