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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/HM1W7L_first-phillips-66-station-historical_McLean-TX.html
First Restored Station
on Old Route 66
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Build and Leased
To Phillips in 1929
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W7F_world-war-ii-prisoner-of-war-camp-at-mclean-historical_McLean-TX.html
A permanent alien interment camp (prisoner of war camp) in the 8th Service Command was established here during World War II. Construction began in September 1942 and American military personnel and German prisoners began to arrive in July 1943. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W7E_mclean-methodist-church-historical_McLean-TX.html
This congregation, organized in the early 1900s, is thought to be the oldest denominational church in Gray County. The Rev. G.R. Fort served as first pastor. Methodists in McLean met in a one-room schoolhouse until their first sanctuary was constr…
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/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…