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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HSV_panhandle-area-natural-gas_Guymon-OK.html
The largest individual gas reserve in the United States covers much of the Oklahoma panhandle extending northward from Texas through this area and into Kansas this sprawling Hugoton Panhandle field provides gas to comfort mankind fire the boilers …
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Townsite planned on Rock Island Railroad survey byInter-State Land & Town Co. in 1900.Rock Island Railroad built through Oklahoma Panhandle 1901.Town founded as Sanford Post Office 14 June 1901, changed toGuymon Post Office on 29 June 1901, after …
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Edward T. Guymon was born in Illinois in 1859. At 21 he moved to McPherson, Kansas from Coatsburg, Illinois. Story is he sold a cow for $22 to pay his fare west. He loaded coal for the Santa Fe Railroad as a clerk and partner for the Star Mercanti…
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The rancher, bringing his cattle, first came to the open range of No Man's Land in the mid-1800s. Barbed wire fences later defined areas of ownership. Confined cattle feedyards developed in the 1950's. These feedlots resulted partly because of the…
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Homesteading families in the Panhandle commonly had a pig or two for personal consumption. It was not until 1992 when Seaboard Farms announced they were going to build a pork processing plant in Guymon that the pork industry leapt forward here on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DR_oil-gas_Guymon-OK.html
Discovered in the 1918, and drilled in the 1930's, the Hugoton Gas Field was one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the world. The Hugoton field which is approximately 3000' deep extends from SW Kansas through the Oklahoma Panhandle and int…