FIRST - Hereford Cattle in the Region - Panhandle, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 20.748 W 101° 22.795
14S E 283725 N 3913991
Marker at the old ranch house moved to the Squarehouse Museum...
Waymark Code: WM137YW
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2020
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County of Marker: Carson County
Location of Marker: 5th St. & Elsie St., Square House Museum, Panhandle
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee
Date Marker Erected: 1968
Marker Text:
Finch-Lord-Nelson and the
FOUNDING OF PANHANDLE CITY
Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region -- Lue Finch, W.H. Lord, O.H. Nelson -- in 1887 promoted Panhandle City, as railroad line approached. They sent in ten cowboys to stake claims around city, which prospered as county seat.
The Finch - Lord - Nelson firm (which included John A. Finch after 1887) left descendants to continue pioneering. Of their 1887 employees, J.E. Southwood and W.D. Jolly also remained.
This little red barn is a replica symbolic of frontier structures built by Finch - Lord - Nelson for the 1887 claimsmen.
(1968)
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