Tell, Texas

Tell is an unincorporated community in southwestern Childress County, Texas, United States.

Belle Garrison, the postmistress, opened the first post office in her dugout home in 1888.

The following year, Jim Fox had a grocery and drugstore, R. A. Hawkins constructed the first cotton gin, and Richard A. Sandifer operated a general store.

[4] Janie Roberts taught at the first school in Tell that was located south of where the community currently stands.

[3] Walt Faulkner, who in 1950 became the first rookie to win the pole position for the Indianapolis 500, was born in Tell and lived there for the first two-and-one-half years of his life.

Childress County map