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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DS_the-pig_Guymon-OK.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DQ_the-mormon-battalion-in-the-oklahoma-panhandle_Boise-City-OK.html
From September 23 through 27, 1846, the Mormon Battalion crossed the northwestern portion of the Oklahoma panhandle. The little army's 500-plus volunteers, recruited for the Mexican War, were enlisted near Council Bluffs, Iowa, from among the firs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11DP_boise-city-bombed_Boise-City-OK.html
July 5, 1943Still BoomingJuly 5, 1993