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 FIRST - Christian Martyr in Texas - Pampa, TX Posted by:  YoSam.
N 35° 32.178 W 100° 57.817
14S E 321982 N 3934292
Also First to cross overland from San Antonio to Santa Fe, 1st military post, & first members of Texas Legislature.
Waymark Code: WMP00H
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/01/2015
Views: 5
County of memorial: Gray County
Location of memorial: 205 Russell St., courthouse lawn, Pampa
Erected by: Gray County 50th Birthday Celebration Association, Inc.
Text on monument front: Lest We Forget
GRAY COUNTY
50th Year Anniversary
1902-1952
Dedicated to our early day pioneers, through whose efforts Gray County was established. And who contributed so much to our 50 years of progress.
Back of Monument text:
Historic
GRAY COUNTY
AREA
1541
Coronado explores the Texas Panhandle searching for Quivira.
1544
Father Juan de Padilla Franciscan Missionary killed by Indians - first martyr to Christianity. In future U.S. site was day's journey either side of Canadian River. (Castenada).
1601
Onate Expedition searches Panhandle for Gran Quivira.
1720
Pedro de Villasur's ill-fated Expedition crosses Gray County.
1788
Pedro Vial, first to cross overland from San Antonio to Santa Fe, camps of Red Deer Creek near Pampa on return trip.
1840
Josiah Gregg views Red River Bluffs near Lefors.
1852
Capt. Randolph B. Marcy and Capt. George Brinton McClellan discover source of Red River in Gray County. McClellan later commands Union Army during Civil War.
1872
General Ranald S. McKenzie's troops route 262 lodges of Mow-Wi's Comanches on McClellan Creek capturing 100 squaws & 3000 horses.
1873
W.S. Mabry surveys Gray County.
1874
General Nelson A. Miles troops under Lt. Frank D. Baldwin rescue Julia and Adelaide German from Grey Beard's Cheyennes on McClellan Creek. Baldwin awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in this battle.
1875
First military post in Panhandle established Cantonment Creek by Maj. James Biddle. Later moved and named Ft. Elliot, Maj. Henry Cary Bankhead, first commandant.
1876
Gray County created, named for Judge Peter Gray, 1837-1874, member first Texas Legislature, member Texas Confederate Congress, Justice - Supreme Court.
1902
152 voters organize Gray County with seat at Lefors. Changed to Pampa in 1928.
Behind city hall is a marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission, erected during the Texas Sesquicentennial (1986) and I present it text as support for the anniversary marker.
Marker text: PAMPA
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 established in 1892 and the town was named Pampa by George Tyng (d. 1906), manager of the White Deer Land Company. Surveyor A. H. Doucette (1884-1964) laid out the town in 1902. The first school opened in 1903 and the first church was organized in 1906. J. N. Duncan (1858-1941) became Pampa's first mayor in 1912. Following a 1920s oil boom, the county seat was moved here from Lefors in 1928.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1544
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