The Snyder Community, in Hale County, Texas, was an intentional community of Mennonite farmers from around the United States.

In 1906, Peter B. Snyder, a farmer and Mennonite minister living in Jackson County, Minnesota, began promoting an area in the panhandle of Texas. He encouraged his fellow Mennonites to join him in settling a colony south of Plainview, in Hale County. Snyder moved his family to his homestead property in February 1907. A number of families from around the United States joined them and the Snyder Community was born.

Although most of the Mennonite families had left Hale County by 1924, the collection of farms where they had lived continued to be known as Snyder.

As one component of the Snyder Community Project, this web site will grow through the submissions of interested individuals. If you are a descendant of a community family and have a photo, a family story, or other historical information about the Snyder Community, please consider sharing it here.