The oldest town in Curry County is Texico, New Mexico. It shares the Texas-New Mexico border with its twin city, Farwell, Texas.
The first known permanent settler at the Texico site was Ira W. Taylor, section foreman for the Pecos Valley and North Eastern Railroad. Taylor is reported to have had a 160 acre claim adjacent to the railroad. W. M. Franklin passed through the site in March of 1902 when nobody was there. He returned in May of 1902 to find Taylor living there. That same spring George Probasco and Ira Neely filed claims just south of the site. Aaron Ragsdale had a claim north of the site. A Mr. Green told the Clovis News, "I came prospecting in August of 1902 and located in Texico in November of 1902. Then there was only one store, a restaurant, and a saloon. The post office was established in September of 1902. Mr. Franklin was the first postmaster. In 1903 the Jenkins Hotel was built. being the first one in Texico. W. D. Cayce built a blacksmith shop. In 1905 the boom struck the town in June when they commenced the building of the Belen Cutoff. The first school house was built in 1902, consisting of a one-room building which was exchanged for a larger building containing two rooms or more on the ground floor in 1904. This school house was used for five years, when a fine two-story school building was erected in 1909. The Methodist, Baptist, Congregationalist, and Christian churches were all built about 1906. During 1906 the First National Bank was erected and after that two more banks were established in Texico. The Cruce building was built in 1910." On May 4, 1903, a meeting of the Roosevelt County's first Commissioners met and established nine school districts, one of these being Texico. From 1903 to 1909 the southern half of present Curry County was a part of Roosevelt County. George Probasco's daughter Mary remembers two of the first teachers, Mr. N. A. Douglas and Mr. Frank Copeland. The school, on the southwest corner of the town section, she recalls, had, among others, the following pupils: Lurline Boone, Tom Grady, Bennie and John Foster, Leona, Sam, Ebb Randol, and Andy Green who rode a burro to school. Not long after Texico was established, a box car was set on a switch as a station house and train loads of material were unloaded. An army of workmen under a contractor began building the new Belen Cut-Off. A motley array of people came into town. One saloon after another was erected, each with gambling, and Texico soon became as wild and almost as disorderly as any of the early mining camps in Colorado. Texico was born and after the railroad picked Clovis as its division point in 1906, Texico's hey-days were over. Many of its merchants moved lock, stock, and barrel to Clovis. Harold Kilmer