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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q2Q_rick-husband_Amarillo-TX.html
Colonel, USAF, NASA Astronaut, and Mission Commander of the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia. Columbia disintegrated upon final re-entry February 1, 2003. All seven astronauts lost their lives.
Rick Husband was Amarillo's native son. He loved his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q2I_fisk-medical-arts-professional-building_Amarillo-TX.html
In 1926, Charles A. Fisk, president of the Amarillo Bank and Trust, and other investors commissioned this skyscraper designed by Amarillo architect Guy A. Carlander and built by the Gilsonite Contracting Co. of Dallas. The building formally opened…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q2H_american-legion-hanson-post-no-54_Amarillo-TX.html
Amarillo's American Legion Post, organized in July 1919, is one of the oldest in Texas, formed two months after the group's organizational caucus in St. Louis. The post, which officially received its charter in Sep. 1919, is named for David T. Han…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q1O_the-amarillo-story_Amarillo-TX.html
Construction of a railroad across the Panhandle led to the founding of Amarillo as County Seat of Potter County, Aug. 30, 1887.
For the ensuing ten years, Amarillo had a monopoly on trade from the South plains, and was the nation's largest rural…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q1N_american-mammoths_Amarillo-TX.html
When this Santa Fe Railway general office building was erected in 1928, the remains of a mammoth were excavated from the basement and were placed in the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.
The extinct American mammoths were closel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q1L_alice-victoria-ghormley-curtis-house_Amarillo-TX.html
Designed by local contractor J. D. Singleton and built for the widow of prominent Texas Ranger and rancher W. R. Curtis, the Alice Victoria Ghormley Curtis House was erected in 1906-1907. Mrs. Curtis (1869-1923) moved to Amarillo after her husband…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q1K_h-b-sanborn-house_Amarillo-TX.html
Built 1902 in 500 block, South Buchanan, by principal early developer of Amarillo, Henry Bradley Sanborn (1845-1912). At original site were also owner's office building, carriage house, stables for six coach horses, and a deer park. After death of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q1J_st-marys-academy_Amarillo-TX.html
Established by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in 1899, St. Mary's Academy was originally located in Clarendon (60 mi. SE). In 1913 the institution was moved to Amarillo through the efforts of The Rev. David H. Dunn and the local Knig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q1I_juan-de-padilla_Amarillo-TX.html
This is a two sided marker
Front:
Self Sacrifice of Padre Fray Juan de Padilla - 1544
Back
Built to the glorious and perpetual memory of Father Fray Juan de Padilla, O.F.M. Franciscan Missionary, first martyr for Christianity in the United S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q1H_old-first-baptist-church_Amarillo-TX.html
Organized September 1889 by 16 charter members. In 1890 built this meeting house at 500 Pierce. First belfry consisted of cedar posts. Baptistry was filled by water buckets, while hot rocks warmed it in wintertime. Ladies Aid Society members inclu…