Camp Buck

Boy scout camp 1938-1974. Named for Samuel Buck (1874-1937), first High Bridge Troop 149 Scoutmaster & V.P. of Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Co.

Marker is on Camp Buck Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Guymon, Texas County, Oklahoma

Townsite planned on Rock Island Railroad survey by

Inter-State Land & Town Co. in 1900.

Rock Island Railroad built through Oklahoma Panhandle 1901.

Town founded as Sanford Post Office 14 June 1901, changed to

Guymon Post Office on 29 June 1901, after E.T. Guymon, ...

R. D. Whitehead Monument

(bronze plaque)

Originally a horse watering trough

Erected in 1910

Restored as a fountain in 1966

by the

Mayor’s Beautification Committee

Designated a Milwaukee Landmark in 1974

in recognition of its historical

significance to the community

(stone mounument)

Erected ...

Oil and Gas

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 ...

The Mormon Battalion in the Oklahoma Panhandle

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 first company of Mormon ...

Fallasburg Pioneer Village

(side 1)

Fallasburg was settled in 1837 by two brothers from Tompkins County, New York. In 1839, John Wesley Fallas purchased the northwest quarter of section 24 and laid plans for a village. His brother, Silas S., also purchased land ...

John Wesley Fallas House / John W. Fallas

(side 1)

John Wesley Fallas House

John Wesley Fallas built this house in 1842 in the village which bears his family name. Fallas platted the village on land he purchased from the U.S. government in 1839. That year, after a ...

Fallasburg Covered Bridge

John W. and Silas S. Fallas settled here in 1837, founding a village which soon boasted a chair factory, sawmill, and gristmill. About 1840 the first of several wooden bridges was placed across the Flat River, but all succumbed in ...

Robert W. Graham Home

In 1873 Robert W. Graham designed and built this Italianate structure as a two-family residence. A native of England, Graham settled in Lowell in 1858. Here he worked as a brick mason, a farmer and a merchant. Graham's son Ernest, ...

Alton Pioneer Village

(side 1)

In the early 1830s the settlement known as Alton grew up in this vicinity. A log schoolhouse, the first in the township, was built on this corner in 1839. In 1842, Gideon Hendricks and Newcomb Godfrey organized the ...