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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11U1_texas-panhandle-pioneers-the-simms-brothers_Panhandle-TX.html
Permanent citizens, forgers of local civilization. Walter Franklin (1869-1963), George Leonard (born 1875) and Dormer D. Simms (born 1884) moved to Texas in 1886 and to this county in the early 1900's. They arrived later than visiting hunters, sol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11U0_the-square-house_Panhandle-TX.html
The Niedringhaus brothers of St. Louis sent lumber by ox-cart from Dodge City and built this square house on their "N Bar N" Ranch here in Carson County in the mid-1880s. In 1887 a railroad official occupied the pioneer cottage while the Southern …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11TZ_carson-county_Panhandle-TX.html
Created 1876. Organized 1888. Named for Samuel Price Carson, Secretary of State, Republic of Texas.
A pioneer county in oil and gas development.
Panhandle, county seat, promised main lines of 3 railroads, was by-passed for Amarillo, yet beca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11TY_texan-hotel_Panhandle-TX.html
During the height of Carson County's oil boom in the 1920s, the major oil field supply houses headquartered in Panhandle, and lodging was in great demand. In 1926, Clark B. (d. 1946) and Margaret (d. 1967) Downs opened the Downs Hotel to help meet…
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In 1880s, capital of Panhandle area. Settled when slaughter of buffalo sent Indians to live on reservations. Terminus of Santa Fe Railway, 1887. Here immigrant trains brought colonists, who plowed old Indian range into wheat fields and civilizatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11TW_atchison-topeka-santa-fe-railroad-depot_Panhandle-TX.html
The 1920s oil boom brought increased business to this railroad town, and a new depot was built here in 1928. The structure exhibits elements of the Prairie School, Mission, and Tudor styles of architecture. Prominent features include bracketed ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11TC_terminus-of-the-santa-fe-railroad_Panhandle-TX.html
Originally "Carson City", town name was changed 1887 when this site appeared to be the future metropolis of the Panhandle: it was to be at the junction of Santa Fe (under name "Southern Kansas") and Fort Worth & Denver City Railroads.
Plans cha…