Last Great Panhandle Cattle Drive to Montana

Each Spring and Summer after 1880, many Texas herds went up the trail to Northern states for fattening. For the cowboys, trail drives meant hard work. They had to turn stampedes, ford rivers and quicksand streams, and fight Indians and ...

Pampa City Hall

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 ...

Combs-Worley Building

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 edifice in ...

Gray County Courthouse

A fine example of a Beaux Arts courthouse with Georgian ornamentation, this structure was erected after the county seat was moved from Lefors in 1928. The edifice was designed by W. R. Kaufman & Son of Amarillo and built by ...

First Methodist Church of Pampa

Five charter members established the First Methodist Church in 1906, the first denomination organized in Pampa. In 1908 a one-room white church with a steeple was built. This church site was purchased in 1924, and a new sanctuary was completed ...

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 area in 1926, Pampa experienced a population boom which created a need for a larger ...

Weaver College

Founded as Weaverville

College, 1873; Methodist,

coeducational. In 1934

merged with Rutherford

to form Brevard College.

Campus was one block W.

Marker is on Merrimon Avenue (Business U.S. 19/23) near Brown Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Helen Scott Hay

Helen Scott Hay, famous Red Cross nurse, was born near Lanark in this county. She was a graduate of Savanna High School, Northwestern University in Evanston, and the Illinois Training School for Nurses in Chicago, where she was later Superintendent. ...

Peace Officers Memorial

[Numerous memorials to

fallen officers, including]

Joseph H. Killion

Patrolman - SJPD

Crushed By A Train In The

Line of Duty

Died June 14, 1917

Greater Love Hath No Man Than This,

That a Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends

Marker is at the intersection of Francis ...

SPC Joshua James "Josh" Munger

May 6, 1983 - November 2, 2005

Killed in Action

Operation Iraqi Freedom

United States Army

1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment,

2nd Brigade, 101 Airborne Div.

“Freedom Isn’t Free”

Dedicated to the Memory of Our Fallen Hero

Marker is at the intersection of Francis Street and 11th Street, ...