White City, in northeastern Gaines County on
Cedar Lake, is a ghost town which originated in
1939 after voters approved the sale of beer.
Soon the town had a lumberyard, a grocery, a
barbershop, four or five bars, two dance halls,
an outdoor dance pavilion, and a two-story hotel
and cafe. The post office was built in 1940 or
1941. Oilfields nearby helped White City prosper
for a few years, although the population
numbered only ten in 1943 and twenty in 1948.
Voters later rejected the local sale of beer,
and by the late 1950s the businesses and the
post office closed down, and the residents moved
away.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gaines County Historical Survey
Committee, The Gaines County Story, ed.
Margaret Coward (Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer,
1974).
William R. Hunt