Terminus of the Santa Fe Railroad
Panhandle, Texas
Originally “Carson City”, town name was changed 1887 when this site appeared to be the future metropolis of the Panhandle: it was to be at the junction of Santa Fe (under name “Southern Kansas”) and Fort Worth & Denver City Railroads.
Plans changed, however, and the F.W.&D.C. took a route 16 mi. south, bypassing Panhandle. (Amarillo was soon founded on the F.W.&D.C.)
Even so, Panhandle became a major shipping center. During great ranching era and again in 1926 oil boom, it moved more freight than any other town on Santa Fe line except Chicago.
Marker is on U.S. 60 0.2 miles west of East 3rd Street, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
