Panhandle, TX After serving as a teamster in the Civil War (1861-65), Thadium (Thomas) B. Cree worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1888 he and his wife came to the High Plains. They acquired this land and, with no trees for lumber, they built a dugout home. Cree traveled 35 miles at his wife’s [ Read More ]
Panhandle, TX ‘(August 12, 1860 – August 15, 1905) Born in the Texas Governor’s Mansion, the eighth and last child of Sam Houston (1793-1863) and his wife Margaret; educated at Baylor University, Texas A&M, and in a law office, Temple Houston came in 1881 to this region as district attorney for the 35th Judicial District. [ Read More ]
Groom, TX Founded in 1904 as a private bank by John Walter Knorpp (1867-1952), member of an established banking family of Missouri, New Mexico, and Texas, and Eugene Sherwood Blasdel (1878-1930), oil and grain business developer of this region. In 1905 Blasdel sold his interest to Knorpp. A state charter was obtained in 1908, but [ Read More ]
Panhandle, TX ‘The Niedringhaus brothers of St. Louis sent lumber by ox-cart from Dodge City and built this square house on their ”N Bar N” Ranch here in Carson County in the mid-1880s. In 1887 a railroad official occupied the pioneer cottage while the Southern Kansas Railway was being extended from Kiowa, Kansas, to Panhandle [ Read More ]
Panhandle, TX Permanent citizens, forgers of local civilization. Walter Franklin (1869-1963), George Leonard (born 1875) and Dormer D. Simms (born 1884) moved to Texas in 1886 and to this county in the early 1900′s. They arrived later than visiting hunters, soldiers and others who in the 1870′s cleared this land of buffalo and hostile Indians, [ Read More ]
White Deer, TX In 1854, 100 Polish families (800 persons) came to America in one small sailing ship–a voyage of 9 weeks. None spoke English. From Galveston they walked 200 miles to Panna Maria in South Texas, arriving for Christmas Eve Mass. There they toiled at manual labor. In 1909, in response to White Deer [ Read More ]
Panhandle, TX ‘ In the 1874-1888 era the High Plains (a sea of grass) had no native timber, stone, or adobe building materials. Homes were dugouts, or, if settlers’ wagons went some 300 miles for lumber, half-dugouts. Dugouts were warm in winter, cool in summer. Some were carpeted and cloth-lined. Some had an extra room, [ Read More ]
Panhandle, TX 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 [ Read More ]
Panhandle, TX ‘Published since 1887. Oldest newspaper in the Texas Panhandle, second oldest business in the area. Founded by H.H. Brookes. Principal owner 1926-58, David M. Warren, oil man, banker, a Regent of the University of Texas. Don and Norene Peoples owners at 75th Anniversary. In Memoriam – David M. Warren (1894-1958) by Mrs. David [ Read More ]
Panhandle, TX The oldest documented graves in this cemetery date to 1889, three years after the founding of Carson City (later renamed Panhandle), the first town in the county. Among those buried here are Civil War veterans and area pioneer families. Gravestone designs range from simple to elaborate, and the cemetery also contains many unmarked [ Read More ]
