Grain elevators not only record the industrialization of plains agriculture; they also show you places–where the railroad left a siding and some sort of town, mostly gone now, took root over 100 years ago. Kevin is in northern Toole County, maybe 20 minutes south of the Canadian border. This lone elevator documents its homesteading era, that with the bust of the 1920s gave way to a boom in oil production in the middle decades of the 20th century. several oil tanks still remain from that era.
Kevin is the outlier–the rural grain elevators of Toole County record places that were once large agricultural communities, and have not been in population decline for decades. But elevators, both from the early days and from more modern times, remain as the sentinels of Toole County.
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I LOVE the old grain elevators. Makes a fun road trip to photograph them before they fall over or are demolished.
Grandmother lived in Kevin as a child, and wrote up a description of the area. They moved there about 1910.
I am a truck driver that 30 years ago, picked up a load of grain every week from westermark grain elevator. Wally Westermark was the person that I did business with. I would back my rig up and Wally would run the conveyor belt into my trailer and load my trailer. I miss Wally. He was a very good man. He was real and genuine. I always enjoyed talking with him.