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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28YL_pampa-tx-post-office-historical-marker_Pampa-TX.html
1934 PAMPA POST OFFICE BUILDING
A POST OFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED HERE IN 1892, AND IN 1902 THE TOWN OF PAMPA WAS FORMALLY PLATTED. FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY OF OIL IN THE ARA IN 1926, PAMPA EXPERIENCED A POPULATION BOOM WHICH CREATED A NEED FOR A LARG…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23UK_oil-discovery-in-gray-county_Pampa-TX.html
The Burnett No. 2, located on the 6666 Ranch in Carson County, and owned by Burk Burnett, was the first oil well drilled in the Panhandle Field. The ranch had been purchased by the White Deer Lands in 1903. Excitement ran rampant in Gray County, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RJV_quanah-parker-trail_Pampa-TX.html
Comanche, Kiowa & Cheyenne fought
Red River War Battles nearby, seen
in White Deer Land Museum exhibit.
Arrow Sculptor: Charles A. Smith
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RJU_site-of-pampa-army-air-force-base_Pampa-TX.html
In the early 1940s Pampa Mayor Fred Thompson and a delegation from the city's Chamber of Commerce traveled to Washington, D.C. to promote this area as a possible site for a military base. Attracted by the terrain, climactic history, available land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RJT_wayside-community_Pampa-TX.html
Settlers came to this locality in 1876. The county was organized in 1889. Pioneer school district no. 5 originated by court order in 1890 to serve this area with schools known as Tallahone, Poole, and Wayside, taught usually in homes. In 1914, Fre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11T5_pampa-city-hall_Pampa-TX.html
Construction of this and other major downtown buildings in Pampa came as a result of the Texas Panhandle Oil Boom of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Designed by architect William R. Kaufman to complement the Gray County Courthouse, which he also d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11T3_pampa_Pampa-TX.html
In 1888 a telegraph station on the Southern Kansas Railroad developed here, and was named Glasgow. Renamed Sutton a year later, a post office was established in 1892 and the town was named Pampa by George Tyng (d. 1906), manager of the White Deer …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11T2_combs-worley-building_Pampa-TX.html
Designed by Amarillo architects W.R. Kaufman & Son, this structure was erected in 1931 to house the offices of the Combs-Worley ranching and oil interests and Pampa professions and businesses. Modern art deco architectural influences appear on the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11T1_gray-county-courthouse_Pampa-TX.html
A fine example of a Beaux Arts courthouse with Georgian ornamentation, this structure was erected after the county seat was moved from Lefors in 1928. The edifice was designed by W. R. Kaufman & Son of Amarillo and built by Harland L. Case & Co. o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11T0_peter-w-gray_Pampa-TX.html
Front:County Named for Texas Confederate. Virginia-born, came to Texas 1838. Aided 1839 removal Texas Shawness. Officer in Milam Guards, Texas Republic. Political, cultural leader in Houston, Republic, State, and Confederacy: he was district attor…