FIRST - Oil Well in Area - Panhandle, TX
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 35° 20.542 W 101° 22.720
14S E 283829 N 3913607
This is the area, not the town...
Waymark Code: WM134J3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/14/2020
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County of Marker: Carson County
Location of Marker: 117 S. Main St., @ Police Station, Panhandle
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee
Date Marker Erected: 1965
Marker Text:
PANHANDLE
In 1880s, capital of Panhandle area. Settled when slaughter of buffalo sent Indians to live on reservations. Terminus of Santa Fe Railway, 1887. Here immigrant trains brought colonists, who plowed old Indian range into wheat fields and civilization. Settlers banked here, saw the dentist, got supplies, lumber, mail, windmills, fencing. Was made county seat when Carson County was organized in 1888.
Nearby is site of first oil well in area, drilled 1921. Also nearby, Pantex Farms of Texas Technological University, on site of World War II Ordnance Plant.
(1965)
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