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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTT_post-office-of-loretta_Texhoma-OK.html
The post office of Loretta was established May 7, 1898. It was moved to the Texas-Okla. line and the name was changed to Texhoma on Nov. 12, 1901.
The Panhandle of Okla. was called No Man's Land. It was owned by Spain in 1541, Mexico in 1821, T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTS_texhoma_Texhoma-OK.html
In 1901, when the new Rock Island Railroad tracks reached here, the post office called Loretta, located NW along the Beaver River, was moved to the new tracks and renamed Texhoma for the two states at its location. From only five families living h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HSW_eureka_Turpin-OK.html
Eureka was established in 1908 with 18 square miles. The high school was started in 1919 when Center, Lincoln, and one half of Pleasant View were consolidated. In 1923, the Nabisco, Happy Flat, and East Banner districts were added and a new buildi…
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11E2_panhandle-baptists_Tyrone-OK.html
Organized Baptist work in the Oklahoma Panhandle began Aug. 5, 1894 when the Pleasant View Baptist Church was founded with 8 charter members 1½ mi. N and 1½ mi. E of here. Meetings were in the Pleasant View school house until after the R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11E1_shades-well_Tyrone-OK.html
From this famous well, cattlemen watered their herds of thousands of stock while waiting shipment over the Rock Island Railroad, after long trail drives to the end of the track near old Tyrone. The well was located by J. U. Shade and H. B. Fore in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11E0_graham-hoeme-chisel-plow_Hooker-OK.html
Preventing wind erosion was the primary objective of Feed Hoeme, a Hooker, Oklahoma farmer, when he developed a heavy-duty chisel plow in 1933. Hoeme and his sons manufactured and sold about 2000 plows from their farmstead. In 1938, W.T. Graham pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DX_guymon-texas-county-oklahoma_Guymon-OK.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DV_e-t-guymon_Guymon-OK.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DU_the-cow_Guymon-OK.html
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…