Carson County

Created 1876. Organized 1888. Named for Samuel Price Carson, Secretary of State, Republic of Texas.

A pioneer county in oil and gas development.

Panhandle, county seat, promised main lines of 3 railroads, was by-passed for Amarillo, yet became one of the 4 ...

Texan Hotel

During the height of Carson County's oil boom in the 1920s, the major oil field supply houses headquartered in Panhandle, and lodging was in great demand. In 1926, Clark B. (d. 1946) and Margaret (d. 1967) Downs opened the Downs ...

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 ...

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Depot

The 1920s oil boom brought increased business to this railroad town, and a new depot was built here in 1928. The structure exhibits elements of the Prairie School, Mission, and Tudor styles of architecture. Prominent features include bracketed overhangs, stepped ...

Site of Randolph McCoy House

House was located on Blackberry Fork of Pond Creek. It burned Jan. 1, 1888, during a Hatfield raid. Two of Randolph's children, Alifair and Calvin, were killed in attack; their mother Sally was badly injured. Randolph and other children escaped. ...

Indian Town

In primitive wilderness here was a large Algonkin village whose bark cabins and tilled fields covered nine acres

Marker is on Joseph C Wilson Blvd north of Elmwood Ave., on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Dorchester School Farm

Town of Foxborough Incorporated 1778

To help support its public school,Dorchester set aside a 650 acre farm in this vicinity which it leased in 1710 to Robert Calef for a total of 308 years. Solomon Hews was operating a tavern here ...

Union Straw Works / Birth of the Straw Hat Industry

Union Straw Works

Members of the Carpenter family became engaged in various straw manufacturing operations. In 1843 they built the Great Bonnet Shop at 18-22 Wall Street and in 1845 the Hamlet House at 12-16 Wall St. Erastus P. Carpenter then ...

Noble Ellis - Sternwheeler that Saved an Army

Ferry Landing

Night of January 10-20, 1862

Confederate General Zollicoffer's pleas for more men and supplies to meet the strong Union force he expected went mostly unheeded. General Albert Sidney Johnston did, however, send a river steamer, the Noble Ellis, up from ...

Centre Burial Ground

In 1783, Nehemiah Carpenter, Samuel Baker and Jeremiah Hartshorn conveyed to the selectmen and their successors in office forever four acres of land on which the meeting house had been built for use as a town common. Mr. Carpenter also ...