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Childress Army Air Field
15716 FM 164
During WWII, U.S. Army air forces initiated a bombardier and navigation school on about 2,400 acres west of Childress. By Oct. 1942 the field was ...
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Childress Cemetery
Childress Cemetery, 3rd St. NE (FM 268), marker is 50 feet E of main entrance mounted on stone
Childress Cemetery Established 1887 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2008
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Childress County
Childress County Courthouse grounds, S side facing Ave. E NW
Formed from Young and Bexar Territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized April 11, 1887. Named in honor of George Campbell Childress 1804-1841. ...
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Childress Post Office Building
Childress County Heritage Museum, SE corner 3rd St. NW and Ave. C NW. Marker reported faded Oct. 2019.
The Childress Post Office was established in 1887, and in 1935 this post office building was constructed on the site formely occupied by the First ...
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Colonel Wm. Edgar Hughes of the Mill Iron
Childress County Courthouse grounds, NE corner facing Ave. F NW (US 287). Marker reported faded Dec. 2013.
= [Mill Iron brand] Born 1840. Came from Illinois to Texas, 1859. During Civil War rose from private, 1st Texas Artillery, to Colonel in 16th Cavalry. ...
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Goodnight Trail
Fair Park, 0.1 mi. N of intersection of Commerce St. NW and Ave. I NW, E side of park drive, SW side of Park Lake
In hostile Indian years of 1866-71, route of great cattle drives from Texas to U.S. forts in Colorado and New Mexico. Col. Charles Goodnight, trailblazer, ...
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Loco, Community of
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Morgan Hospital
SW corner 7th St. SW and Ave. D SW. Marker reported faded Sep. 2018.
One of the earliest medical care facilities in Childress, this double-galleried building was constructed in 1916 to house the clinic of Dr. J.D. ...
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Old Railroad Y.M.C.A.
VFW Post 2512, SW corner 10th St. NW and Ave. C NW
Recreation and hospitality center for early Childress; in Spanish Mission Revival style architecture. Built 1903, after citizens, led by R.H. Norris ...
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Olympus-Lonie Cemetery
marker pending
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On Old Shoenail Ranch Land, Community of Loco
From Childress, take US 82/83 about 20 miles north to junction of Highway 83/82 and Highway 1034.
Named for weed found here in 1880s by early settlers--the families of Dick Brown, Walter Campbell, and Bobby Payne. The Browns survived the last ...
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Palace Theater
N. Main St., E side between Ave. B NE and Ave. C NE
F.M. Phipps and G.S. Layton opened the Palace Theater in 1926. The theater suffered two fires, the second burning it to the ground in 1936. Phipps' ...
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Site of Buck Creek Stage Stand
Off US 83 on private property.
Established in 1882 by Frank Chriss. A stop on the mail route from Wichita Falls to Tascosa. Abandoned in 1886 after the Ft. Worth and Denver Railroad ...
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Tell Methodist Cemetery
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