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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W7K_state-national-bank-historical_Groom-TX.html
Founded in 1904 as a private bank by John Walter Knorpp (1867-1952), member of an established banking family of Missouri, New Mexico, and Texas, and Eugene Sherwood Blasdel (1878-1930), oil and grain business developer of this region. In 1905 Blas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W7J_dr-charles-l-fields-historical_Groom-TX.html
Prominent pioneer dentist and farmer. As a boy, cut wood to support mother widowed in Civil War. Worked as carpenter for money to attend dental school in Chicago. Licensed 1890.
Came to Canadian in 1903; Groom, 1916. Traveled at times to ranch h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W7I_city-of-groom-historical_Groom-TX.html
Founded 1902 by W. S. Wilkerson, local landowner, when Rock Island Railroad built west; named for Col. B. B. Groom, 1880s agent of Francklyn Land & Cattle Co.
Col. Groom was first to try power farming on Plains. Town is today hub of rich farming…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RKF_first-rotary-drilling-rig-used-in-texas-panhandle_Panhandle-TX.html
In October 1923, W. T. Willis, J. E. Trigg, and H. D. Lewis, partners in one of Texas' largest drilling firms, broke ground at the S. B. Burnett 6666 Ranch with the first rotary drilling rig used in the Texas Panhandle. Success of this drilling me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RKE_gulf-burnett-no-2_Panhandle-TX.html
The Panhandle's first oil well, Gulf Burnett No. 2, was struck by the Gulf Production Company on May 2, 1921, on the 6666 Ranch of S. B. Burnett. The prediction of oil in this area by U.S. geologists in 1904 and the discovery of natural gas nearby…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RKD_6666-dixon-creek-ranch_Panhandle-TX.html
Takes name from creek where noted buffalo hunter and scout Billy Dixon established first dugout home on High Plains, 1874.
Ranch founded, 1882, by Francklyn Land and Cattle Co., English firm backed by Cunard Steamship Co.
Fenced, 1884, with ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11V8_thomas-cree-homesite_Panhandle-TX.html
After serving as a teamster in the Civil War (1861-65), Thadium (Thomas) B. Cree worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1888 he and his wife came to the High Plains. They acquired this land and, with no trees for lumber, they built a dugout hom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11U8_conway-community-church_Panhandle-TX.html
Residents of Conway, established 9 miles south of here in 1905, attended non-denominational services in a relocated schoolhouse until this union church building was completed in 1912. It became an important gathering place for the Conway community…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11U7_temple-lea-houston_Panhandle-TX.html
Born in the Texas Governor's Mansion, the eighth and last child of Sam Houston (1793-1863) and his wife Margaret; educated at Baylor University, Texas A&M, and in a law office, Temple Houston came in 1881 to this region as district attorney for th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11U6_last-great-panhandle-cattle-drive-to-montana_Panhandle-TX.html
After 1880, each spring and summer many Texas herds went up the trail to northern states, for fattening. The trail thrilled and challenged cowboys, who went hungry, thirsty and saddle sore; bridged or swam the rivers; forded quicksand streams; tur…