Lakeview, TX

In 1928, citizens organized a new school district out of the existing Black School to serve eastern Parmer County. E.B. Whitefield, J.M.W. Alexander, and C.A. Guinn were the first trustees, and Cora Carter was the first principal. The two-room schoolhouse was named for a nearby intermittent lake. Friona merchants contributed goods and services to an auction that raised money for Lakeview School to buy books, maps, and other supplies. Trustees built a three-room teacherage in the school's second year, and later a bus was acquired to serve outlying areas. Lakeview School consolidated with Friona in 1942, and the teacherage and the schoolhouse were moved for continued use.

Lakeview had forty-five residents in 1985. For years the voting place for Precinct 8 was the farmhouse of the E. B. Whitefield family. In 1990 the community was centered around a grain elevator, a fertilizer company, and a cotton gin. With irrigation farmers in the area raise wheat, corn, sorghum, and hay. Hogs, sheep, and cattle are also raised.