Jericho Legacy Foundation

JERICHO WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO DISAPPEAR. 

Jericho, Texas - Donley County was once a living Panhandle community filled with families, schoolchildren, railroad workers, farmers, travelers and even a hometown baseball team.  The Chicago Rock Island came through. Route 66 came through. Generations built lives here. 

Then the road moved.

and little by little, Jericho began disappearing.

Today, the buildings that remain are weathered, fragile and irreplaceable.  But Jericho's story is still here.  And the Jericho Legacy Foundation is working to make sure it stays that way.

Jericho Baseball Team, Circa 1927

Generations before Jericho became known as a ghost town, this was a community where people lived, worked, went to school and played ball. 

photo courtesy of Stanley Lamb

THE JERICHO 1,000

1000 People. $66 Each. One Historic Town

As Route 66 marks 100 years in 2026, we're bringing together 1,000 supporters to help preserve a piece of it's history for the next 100 years. 

Our goal for The Panhandle Gives is bold: bring together 1000 people who believe places like Jericho are worth saving.  A gift of $66 honors Jericho's connection to historic Route 66, while helping preserve a story that began long before the highway arrived.  Together 1000 gifts of $66 can raise $66,000 for preservation.

Every gift matters, whether it's  it's $25, $66, $100 or more. Together, we can make sure future generations have something more than photographs to remember Jericho by. 

• The Old Farmhouse - stabilization and restoration, before weather takes what time hasn't. 
• The Windmill - a new windmill that will actually pump water again, the way it did when Jericho was a living town.
• The sandlot baseball field where Jericho's hometown team played. That's them in the 1927 photo above
• The Reeves filling station and motor courts - windows and doors to close them in and keep them standing.

Together 1,000 gifts of $66 raise $66,000 for preservation. 

The Panhandle Gives runs November 23 - December 1 - nine days only. Gifts made in that window go further, because The Panhandle Gives amplifies donations through its Amplification Fund. 

When you give $66, you're one of the 1,000. Once historic town is counting on exactly that.