FIRST - Church, School, & Mayor - Pampa, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 32.148 W 100° 57.813
14S E 321987 N 3934237
1 Albert Square is a small park-like area between city hall building and Foster Street.
Waymark Code: WM133AG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2020
Views: 3
County of Marker: Gray County
Location of Marker: 200 Foster St., city hall lawn, Pampa
Marker Erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Date Marker Erected: Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986
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.
Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986
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