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36 1934 Pampa Post Office Building 120 E. Foster 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 ...

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23328 Alanreed Cemetery Alanreed Cemetery, Spur 271, S side W of FM 291 This public cemetery includes more than ten acres on a rise overlooking the community. The site became an important supply point with expansion ...

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324 Battle of North Fork of Red River FM 1321, S side 6.4 mi. E of SH 273. Marker reported damaged (bullet holes). On Sept. 29, 1872, Col. Ranald S. MacKenzie (1840-89) found in this area a 262-tepee village of Comanches defying treaties that sought to confine ... 13607 Big Springs RR 2375, N side, 250 feet W of SH 273 Native Americans and military forces have long camped at nearby springs that served as an oasis in the surrounding area. In 1852, U.S. Capt. Randolph ...

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11901 Combs-Worley Building 120 W. Kingsmill 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 ...

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1443 Eldridge Post Office FM 291 R.O.W., 4 1/2 miles north of Alanreed. The first post office in Gray County, Eldridge was established on March 20, 1886. The locality was first called Elfin Grove, but the post office ...

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13230 Fairview Cemetery Fairview Cemetery, on stone entrance gate on N. Duncan St., E. side, S. of E. 17th St. Fairview Cemetery Established 1904 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004 1765 First Methodist Church of Pampa Ballard and Foster Street, 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 ... 14538 First National Bank 100 North Cuyler St.

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2149 George B. McClellan Lake McClelland Campground, NW shore of Lake McClelland, 0.2 mi. SE of RR 2477 West Point graduate George B. McClellan (1826-1885) was a U.S. Army engineer and a member of an expedition led by Randolph B. Marcy that explored ... 2259 Gray County Sunset Park (triangle between Wilks, Wells and Ripley streets) Formed from Young and Bexar Territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized May 27, 1902. Named in Honor of Peter W. Gray 1819-1874. Member of the ... 2261 Gray County 50th Year Anniversary 200th Block of Kingsmill Street, Courthouse Square, Pampa Lest We Forget; Gray County; 50th Year Anniversary; 1902-1952; Dedicated to our early day pioneers, through whose efforts Gray County was established. ... 11902 Gray County Courthouse Kingsmill & Russell A fine example of a beaux arts courthouse with Georgian ornamentation, this structure was erected after the county seat was moved from Lefors in ...

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2629 Indian Battlefield Located just east of Highway 70 at turn off to Lake McClellan, but before entering park, about 17 miles south of Pampa. In this vicinity Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, commanding two companies of United States troops, attacked a large band of Indians and rescued two ...

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3300 McLean Methodist Church McLean United Methodist Church. SW corner Gray and Second streets. Marker faces Second Street. This congregation, organized in the early 1900s, is thought to be the oldest denominational church in Gray County. The Rev. G. R. Fort served as ...

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3922 Pampa 1 Albert Square, Pampa (faces Courthouse Square on Kingsmill). In 1888 a telegraph station on the Southern Kansas Railroad developed here, and was named Glasgow. Renamed Sutton a year later, a post office was ... 3923 Pampa City Hall 1 Albert Square, Pampa (faces Courthouse Square on Kingsmill). 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. ... 3997 Peter W. Gray 200th block of Kingsmill Street, Courthouse grounds, Pampa (Front) Star and Wreath County Named for Texas Confederate 1819-1876 Virginia-born, came to Texas 1838. Aided 1839 removal Texas Shawness. Officer ... 4027 Pioneer Cottage Santa Fe Park, NE corner E. Atchison Avenue and S. Cuyler Street. Built in 1903, one year after county was organized, by settlers Wiley Vincent and wife Katie. This small early Texas cabin has 2 rooms. In 1907, ...

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4217 Red River Expedition of 1852 SH 70 R.O.W. 6 miles south of Pampa. Randolph B. Marcy, U.S. Fifth Infantry Captain, and George B. McClellan led a company into the Texas panhandle in 1852 to determine the locations ... 4250 Rescue of Two White Girls by Lt. Frank Baldwin take SH 273 south from Pampa. Marker is located at SH 273 and Spur 398 in a small park just north of Lefors. Ten miles southwest of here Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin commanding two companies of United States troops attacked a large band of Cheyenne Indians ...

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4870 Site of Pampa Army Air Force Base SH 152, S side, 200 feet E of RR 1474. In the early 1940s Pampa mayor Fred Thompson and a delegation from the city's Chamber of Commerce traveled to Washington, D.C. to promote this area ...

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11903 Vittorio Emanuel von Brunow, M. D. 101 S. Cuyler (October 27, 1862 - May 7, 1941) Born in North Carolina, Vittorio von Brunow moved to east Prussia with his family in 1864 and as a young man was ...

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5782 White Deer Land Building 116 S. Cuyler St. 12619 Woody Guthrie 320 S. Cuyler St. American folk musician Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (1912-1967) moved to Pampa from his native Oklahoma at age 17. Here he learned to play the ... 5908 World War II Prisoner of War Camp at McLean NW corner County Line Rd./CR 5280/McCarty St. and Z Rd., 1 mi. N of IH-40 Exit 146 (County Line Road) A permanent alien interment camp (prisoner of war camp) in the 8th Service Command was established here during World War II. Construction began in ...