Site of Original Oak Swamp Church

(Baptist)

Framing for this church had begun at Peckham Street, when disgruntled Oak Swamp people took away the timbers in the night and raised the church here.

Marker is at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Chestnut Street, on the right when ...

Palmer River Pound

"Old Pot Ash Neighborhood"

This town pound maintained by Col. Frederick Drown for many years. Stray cattle were kept here until retrieved by their owners.

The Wheeler family ran a pot ash business nearby.

Marker is on Brook Street east of School Street, ...

POW-MIA Memorial

On Behalf of a Grateful Nation and a Proud American Legion

This POW-MIA flag flies to honor those veterans who, in service to this great nation, sacrificed their freedom and their physical and mental well-being as prisoners of war. It also ...

Temple Lea Houston

(August 12, 1860 - August 15, 1905)

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 ...

Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City

Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region — Lue Finch, W.H. Lord, O.H. Nelson — in 1887 promoted Panhandle City, as railroad line approached. They sent in ten cowboys to stake claims around city, which prospered as county ...

Eclipse Windmill Patented 1867

George Tyng, White Deer Lands, drilled first water well 1887 near present townsite White Deer after unsuccessful attempt in 1886 by Col. B. B. Groom, Francklyn Land & Cattle Company.

Windmill indispensable factor in settlement plains of Texas. Eclipse Mill slow ...

Pioneer Dugout

In the 1874-1888 era the High Plains (a sea of grass) had no native timber, stone, or adobe building materials. Homes were dugouts, or, if settlers' wagons went some 300 miles for lumber, half-dugouts. Dugouts were warm in winter, cool ...

The J.D. Chason Memorial Park / The J.D. Chason Memorial Park Hi

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The J.D. Chason Memorial Park

The J.D. Chason Memorial Park stands a permanent honor in memory of the late Doctor J.D. Chason. Members of his immediate family graciously presented it on December 29, 1921 to the city of Bainbridge. ...

Texas Panhandle Pioneers: The Simms Brothers

Permanent citizens, forgers of local civilization. Walter Franklin (1869-1963), George Leonard (born 1875) and Dormer D. Simms (born 1884) moved to Texas in 1886 and to this county in the early 1900's. They arrived later than visiting hunters, soldiers and ...

Panhandle

In 1880s, capital of Panhandle area. Settled when slaughter of buffalo sent Indians to live on reservations. Terminus of Santa Fe Railway, 1887. Here immigrant trains brought colonists, who plowed old Indian range into wheat fields and civilization. Settlers banked ...