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Amarillo, Texas

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Amarillo, Texas, a city steeped in the dust and dreams of the Panhandle, boasts a surprisingly diverse musical heritage. Its story is intertwined with the evolution of country music, particularly the rise of Texas country and Americana. While blues and gospel undoubtedly echoed through the city's early days, it was in the latter half of the 20th century that Amarillo began carving its niche. Joe Ely, a true son of Amarillo, emerged as a pivotal figure, his blend of country, rock, and Tex-Mex infusing the genre with a raw, authentic edge. His influence helped solidify Amarillo's place in the landscape of Texas music, inspiring countless musicians who followed in his footsteps.

Beyond country, Amarillo has quietly fostered a diverse independent music scene. While specific dates are harder to pinpoint, the latter decades of the 20th century and the early 21st saw the emergence of artists exploring folk, rock, and other genres. This eclectic mix reflects the city's unique character, a crossroads of cultures and influences. While large venues may not define Amarillo's musical story, the smaller bars and local stages have served as incubators for creativity, allowing artists to experiment and connect with audiences on a personal level. Amarillo's contribution to music lies not just in specific genres, but in its consistent support for musical expression in all its forms.

Music in Amarillo

Songs About Amarillo

Cadillac Ranch
Chris LeDoux
98%
"Now we call it the Cadillac Ranch"
Motel Breakfast
Mac Leaphart
97%
"Tonight we’re at the Golden Light Cafe"
West Texas Girl
The Panhandlers
95%
"The only joint open’s the High Cotton Tavern” she said as she pointed her pickup to town"
cadillac ranch
Ward Hayden & The Outliers
94%
"TITLE"
amarillo rain
eric paisley
90%
amarillo
emmylou harrris
90%
Amarillo Funk
Zac Wilkerson
83%
Amarillo Windmill
The Great Divide
83%
Amarillo Sky
Jason Aldean
82%
"Underneath, underneath this Amarillo Sky"
Am I Right (Or Amarillo)
Asleep at the Wheel
82%
"Am I right or Amarillo"
Amarillo Sand
Mo Robson Band
82%
Amarillo
Ryan Culwell
82%
"Say Amarillo is just a waste of time"
Amarillo by Morning
Josiah and the Bonnevilles
82%
The Lights of Amarillo
Chris LeDoux
81%
"The lights of Amarillo"
Amarillo Depot
Johnny Bush
81%
Amarillo Blue
Songs From The Road Band
81%
Goodbye to Amarillo
Houston Marchman
81%
Amarillo Highway (Live)
Robert Earl Keen
81%
Amarillo By Morning
Chris LeDoux
81%
"Amarillo by morning Amarillo I'll be there"
Am I Amarillo
Aaron Watson
80%
"Am I Amarillo?"

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Artists From Amarillo

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Aaron Watson
country
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The Snuts
indie
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Emily Wells
rock
K
Kevin Fowler
country
B
Beluga Lagoon
indie
R
Runrig
folk
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Soapbox
indie
T
Teenage Fanclub
indie
H
Hayden Pedigo
folk
B
BMX Bandits
indie
J
John Rich
country
T
Talisk
folk
T
The Soup Dragons
indie
I
Infliction
metal
T
The Undertakers
rock
T
Trent Willmon
country
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North Atlas
rock
T
The Lapelles
indie
R
Rodney Branigan
country
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Carnivores
metal

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Amarillo

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Amarillo.

U.S. Route 66 19 songs Highway I 40 21 songs Canadian River 7 songs

Musical Heritage

Hayden Pedigo (musician) RoadyGoat

Hayden Pedigo is twenty-nine, from Amarillo, and if you want to know what he does, he'll just read you his own Wikipedia page: avant-garde musician, politician, performance artist, and model. He's put out seven albums, each with its own video. He's made prank videos. He ran for Amarillo City Council and lost. His 2023 record, "The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored," opens on a track called "Looking at the Fish," and it's full of long, hanging pauses — which he'll tell you is the whole point. That empty space is the Panhandle: the flat, the quiet, the miles of nothing that raised him. Most guitar players rush to fill the silence. Pedigo learned to leave it right where the land left it.

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Palo Duro Canyon State Park RoadyGoat

They call Palo Duro the second-biggest canyon system in the country — and depending on who's measuring, and how, you'll get an argument. What nobody argues is the size of the thing: a hundred and twenty miles long, eight hundred feet down, torn into the Caprock Escarpment right outside Amarillo. Fifteen thousand acres of trail for boots, bikes, and horses. The Lighthouse Trail runs just under six miles out to the canyon's signature rock spire — about a two-hour walk, and yes, bring the dog, leash on. And down on the canyon floor sits a thirteen-hundred-seat amphitheater, where every summer they stage the outdoor musical "Texas" with those red walls going gold behind the cast. Second-biggest, eighth-biggest, whatever the ranking — standing on the rim, it's plenty.

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History of Amarillo

The Yellow Name RoadyGoat

You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: amarillo is the Spanish word for yellow. The Texas city was first called Oneida, then renamed for nearby Amarillo Lake and Creek, probably named by New Mexican traders or shepherds for yellow soil along the banks or abundant yellow wildflowers. Even the first houses were reportedly painted yellow to mark the change. Local English pronunciation drifted away from Spanish ah-mah-ree-yoh, a change already criticized in eighteen eighty eight. The name is factual; whether soil or flowers supplied the original splash of color remains qualified.

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Is the Sun Really Yellow? RoadyGoat

You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: sunlight contains a broad range of visible wavelengths and looks essentially white from space. From the ground it can appear yellow because Earth's atmosphere scatters shorter blue wavelengths more strongly, changing the direct light reaching our eyes. Near sunrise or sunset, the longer path through air removes still more blue and can leave orange or red. A yellow crayon sun is therefore a reasonable Earthbound impression, not the Sun's fixed paint color. Never look directly at it without proper solar viewing equipment, even when haze makes it seem dim.

Why Yellow Gets Your Attention RoadyGoat

You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: yellow is highly visible in many daylight conditions and contrasts strongly with dark lettering, helping explain yellow school buses and warning signs. A traffic signal's yellow phase warns that right of way is changing, not that every driver should accelerate. In nature, yellow combined with black can serve as aposematic, or warning, coloration in animals such as many wasps, though harmless species may mimic the pattern. Human culture lets yellow carry opposite emotions: sunlight, energy, and cheer on one side; caution, illness, or cowardice on the other.

Dust Bowl - Texas Panhandle

1930

The Texas Panhandle was at the center of the Dust Bowl, the catastrophic ecological and agricultural disaster of the 1930s caused by drought and destructive farming practices.

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Husband, Rick Douglas

2003

Rick Douglas Husband, astronaut, pilot, U. S. Air Force colonel, and Flight Commander of STS-107 Columbia , was born on July 12, 1957, in Amarillo, Texas, to Douglas Earl Husband and Jane Virginia (Barbagallo) Husband. His father was a Naval pilot in the Korean War and was noted as inspiring Rick and his brother Keith to become aviators; Rick’s brother Keith grew up to be a commercial airline pilot. From at least the age of four, Rick always wanted to be an astronaut. He grew up watching the moon landings and referred to those events as being the motivating factors to become an astronaut. He went to Amarillo High School, and just after graduation in 1975, Husband got his pilot’s license at Tradewind Airport. He enrolled at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he majored in mechanical engineering and was a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. A member of the university’s ROTC program, he was a member of the undergraduate pilot program and earned a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force upon receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1980. Husband attended flight school at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma and was then assigned to F-4 flight training at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. While in the U. S. Air Force he logged more than 3,800 flight hours in more than forty different kinds of airplanes and became a flight instructor and test pilot. After being stationed in Florida, Husband was assigned to be a flight and academic F-4 instructor at George Air Force Base in California. In 1987 he was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base in California to attend U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. Upon completion of test pilot school, Husband was a test pilot for the F-4 and all five models of the F-15. He was honored as F-4 Tactical Air Command Instructor Pilot of the Year in 1987. Husband also attended California State University, Fresno, while in the Air Force and earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1990. He served as an exchange pilot in the Royal Air Force in England in 1992 and test flew many of their aircraft still in use in the early twenty-first century. Husband was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for astronaut training at Johnson Space Center in December 1994; he had applied four times. After completing training, he worked with NASA on safety features for astronauts and the Crew Return Vehicle. He also had a hand in studying the return to the moon project as a safety officer. Husband’s first flight into space was aboard the STS-97 Discovery on which he served as a pilot in 1999. The ten-day mission, which included the very first docking at the International Space Station, also delivered four tons of supplies and equipment for the team that would live on the space station for the next year. The next mission for Husband was his last, aboard STS-107 Columbia . The mission was designed as a sixteen-day research mission for which Husband was the Shuttle Commander. On February 1, 2003, as the Columbia was attempting reentry at 8:52 am EST, sensors onboard began to register an abnormal increase in temperature; soon other sensors began registering the same problem, indicating that the space shuttle was heating up faster than normal. At 8:58 the shuttle was over New Mexico and showing signs of increased drag. At 8:59 the space shuttle registered a tire pressure sensor malfunction, which alerted the crew and indicated that they were responsive. Shortly after, all communication with the crew was lost, as the space shuttle began disintegrating at Mach 18 at an altitude of more than 200,000 feet over East Texas. The shuttle and all crew members on board were lost ( see SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA CRASH ). Rick Husband married Evelyn Neely on February 27, 1982, in Amarillo, Texas, and together they raised two children, Matthew and Laura. He was a devout Presbyterian and attended church with his wife and children as regularly as he could, given the nature of

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Marsh, Stanley III [3]

1974

Stanley Marsh III, businessman, prankster, and public artist, was born in Amarillo, Texas, on January 31, 1938. He was the son of Stanley and Estelle Elizabeth (Fariss) Marsh. Heir to a fortune made by his grandfather and father in the oil and gas industry , Marsh eventually changed the "III" in his given name to "3" because he thought that the original seemed pretentious. Apparently he showed an aptitude for art during his childhood and did watercolor painting and wood carving. He graduated from Amarillo High School, and he attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's in American civilization before returning to Amarillo and beginning a business career, first as a banker and then as the owner of television station KVII, which he purchased in 1967 and sold in 2002. Marsh married Gwendolyn Bush O'Brien on April 22, 1967. The couple eventually adopted five children and lived in a home called "Toad Hall" on a large estate near Amarillo. The estate was known for its unusual livestock, such as a yak and camel, and other exotic animals. Marsh quickly gained the reputation of a quirky prankster and eccentric businessman. To perpetuate the myth of all Texans being tall, he invited all citizens of Amarillo taller than six feet, four inches to a reception for a delegation of Japanese businessmen. In 1975 when Texan and U. S. Treasury Secretary John Connally faced a trial in Washington, D.C., for his supposed role in a milk-price scandal, Marsh showed up wearing a fringed western jacket and carrying a bucket of cow manure. All the while he engaged in such antics, Marsh insisted that he was in reality an artist and set out to prove it most famously with the 1974 creation, "Cadillac Ranch," a row of ten such luxury cars partially buried at an angle, nose-down along Interstate 40 west of Amarillo. Marsh called the Ranch "a monument to the American dream" to a boy coming of age in the 1950s. According to Marsh, a car "represented money; it was the first valuable thing we ever had. It represented sex; it was where you had dates," he added. "And it represented getting away from home. And I assure you those were the three things that were on our minds when we were 16." In 1997 he had the cars, which had become a roadside attraction covered with graffiti, moved a mile west of their original site. Another of his notable works of "public art" was designing a football-field-sized piece of land to represent a billiard table that could only be viewed from the air. Painted green, the "table" was replete with giant billiard balls and a 100-foot-long cue stick. He was also known for the various mock road signs that he had posted around Amarillo. Marsh's eccentricities brought notoriety that local citizens generally found amusing or acceptable for years, but serious problems arose for him in 2012 when a series of lawsuits were brought on behalf of local teenaged boys who accused him of having used money, gifts, alcohol, and drugs to pay them for sex. Those cases were settled by Marsh, but similar lawsuits, all of which were unresolved, plagued him for the last two years of his life. He was under indictment for a number of felony counts at the time of his death. He suffered several strokes and died of pneumonia in Amarillo on June 17, 2014. He was buried at the Llano Cemetery in Amarillo. His tombstone included the epitaph that he had written decades earlier: "Thanks, everybody. I had a good time." Lawsuits alleging sexual abuse and child sex trafficking continued to be filed after his death. Some area residents called for the dismantling of Cadillac Ranch, but as of 2019 the popular roadside attraction still stood.

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Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, First Railroad Through the Texas Panhandle

1873

Pioneered transportation in the old buffalo and Indian frontier and the open-range cattle empire. Organized by Fort Worth citizens. Although chartered by the Texas Legislature on May 26, 1873, the actual building was delayed by the money panic of 1873. Under General G.M. Dodge, civil engineer who had built several major lines, grading began in 1881 at Hodge, near Fort Worth. Despite the 1882 repeal of the Texas Land Grant Act, private capital was able to push rails northwestward at intervals. Numerous towns, including Amarillo (in 1887) began as camps of the crews building grade and laying the tracks. On March 14, 1888, connection was made with rails of the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Railroad (now Colorado and Southern) at Union Park, near Folsom, N. Mex. This completed the through route to Denver. In 1908 the Fort Worth and Denver City became a part of the Burlington System; in 1951 the name was changed to Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company. Ever since its beginning, this railroad has been backed by men with unlimited faith in the destiny of the Texas Panhandle. It has advanced the economy based on cattle, grain, petroleum, and manufacturing. (1966)

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Thompson, General Ernest O.

1917

Acknowledged world leader in petroleum conservation. A third generation Texan. Left college for World War I, earning battlefield promotion to Lieutenant Colonel--youngest in the U.S. Army. In 1930 gained national recognition as crusading Amarillo mayor. Appointed in 1932 to Railroad Commission of Texas, won successive elective terms, chairman many years. Began Commission duty by enforcing proration in East Texas during world's greatest oil boom. Backed by Texas Rangers, closed off non-complying wells. His previous experience was in law practice, hotel ownership; quickly learned oil and gas engineering principles, along with regulation and conservation. In 1934, under advice of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, led in founding Interstate Oil Compact Commission. Represented the U.S. at World Petroleum Congress in Paris in 1937. Went into Army in World War II, but returned to Texas on presidential order to insure oil supplies for Allied military forces. In 1951 was awarded American Petroleum Institute Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement. An international authority on oil--key to world trade--he had great economic influence.

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Amarillo Natatorium [The Nat]

1922

The Amarillo Natatorium, a celebrated club and landmark located at 2705 W. 6th Avenue in Amarillo, opened in July 1922. Originally designed by local architect Guy Carlander, the facility was constructed to surround an open-air community swimming pool that measured 36 feet by 101 feet. With the popularity of the pool, the facility was enclosed the following year to provide year-round use. In 1926 J. D. Tucker purchased the Natatorium, which was commonly called "The Nat." He covered the swimming pool with 10,000 square feet of maple flooring to create a dance floor and stage for his new dance palace, and the venue became a popular ballroom. A second story was added and possibly housed gambling rooms at some point. Amarillo businessman Harry Badger bought The Nat in the early 1930s and renamed it The Nat Dine and Dance Palace. He built the castle-like façade on the structure and added an entrance to the dance hall area to pull in patrons from Route 66, the major highway for a growing number of motorists. Badger also added a dining area-The Nat Café. Heralded for its fine dance floor and other upscale amenities, The Nat was a notable venue during the big band era and hosted such luminaries as the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, Duke Ellington, the Dorsey Brothers, and Harry James . Reportedly, at its peak, more than forty employees worked at The Nat. Dr. William Maddox purchased The Nat in the 1940s, and it remained a favored musical club along Route 66, as well as a hangout for servicemen stationed at Amarillo Air Force Base . During the 1950s the establishment evolved with changing musical tastes and offered performances by Buddy Holly , Little Richard, and Roy Orbison . The Nat closed as a public dance hall in the 1960s but was still occasionally used for concerts and community events. During the mid-1990s Mike and Jamie Cabins owned the Nat. It was listed as part of the U.S. Route 66-Sixth Street Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. A historical marker honoring the Amarillo Natatorium was erected in 1996. The building was renovated for use as an antiques mall but closed again to the public in the early 2000s. The Nat has occasionally hosted concerts for such artists as Joe Ely, the Dixie Chicks, and Cooder Graw and remains a popular tourist attraction along Route 66. Legends of ghost stories and hauntings also surround its storied past, and The Nat has been the site of paranormal investigations. In the 2020s The Nat was a market place for vendors and was operated by Kasey Robinson.

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Things to Do in Amarillo

quirky 9.1 mi away
Cadillac Ranch

Ten Cadillacs buried nose-down in a Texas field since 1974. Bring spray paint.
food 2.7 mi away
The Big Texan Steak Ranch

Home of the free 72-oz steak challenge since 1960. Giant cowboy out front.
nature 19.9 mi away
Palo Duro Canyon

Second-largest canyon in the US. The Grand Canyon of Texas with stunning red rock walls.
quirky 21.9 mi away
Palo Duro Canyon

The second-largest canyon in the United States cuts straight through the flat Texas Panhandle like somebody took a knife to a pancake. A hundred and twenty…
nature 22.1 mi away
Lighthouse Rock

Lighthouse Rock is the signature hoodoo of Palo Duro Canyon -- a three-hundred-foot pillar of red sandstone with a harder caprock balanced on top. The caprock…
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Day Trip to Amarillo 🥩 (FULL EPISODE) S4 E12

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Sports in Amarillo

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 5A · Girls Basketball · 2018–2019

Amarillo Mustangs — UIL 5A Girls Basketball State Champions — 2 titles

Most recent: 2019 5A

Amarillo High School's girls' basketball program stands as a notable presence in Class 5A, showcasing a consistent drive for excellence. The team has secured two UIL State Championships, capturing the 5A title in 2018 and again in 2019. These back-to-back victories reflect a period of strong performance on the court, bringing pride to the Panhandle.

The Lady Sandies' achievements are a highlight for the Amarillo community, demonstrating the results of dedicated effort in high school athletics. While no specific alumni are listed as having gone on to professional or major-college careers, the program's success remains a point of local distinction.

State titles
2 (2018–2019)
Most recent
2019
Class
5A
The moment

The Amarillo High School girls' basketball team captured the Class 5A state championship in 2019.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 4A · Volleyball · 2022

Randall Raiders — 2022 UIL 4A Volleyball State Champions

Most recent: 2022 4A

Randall High School, a Class 4A powerhouse in Amarillo, Texas, has established itself as a formidable presence in high school volleyball. The Raiders proudly claimed a UIL State Championship in 2022, showcasing the dedication and skill fostered within the program. The school's commitment to athletic excellence is evident in its consistent performance on the court, bringing a sense of pride to the local community.

The volleyball program at Randall High continues to be a point of regional distinction. With a state title under its belt, the team represents the competitive spirit found in the Texas Panhandle. The community in Amarillo rallies around its student-athletes, celebrating their achievements and the positive impact they have, both on and off the court, within the Class 4A landscape.

State titles
2022
Most recent
2022
Class
4A
The moment

The 2022 4A UIL State Championship stands as a significant achievement for Randall High School volleyball.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 5A · Volleyball · 2016

Amarillo Mustangs — 2016 UIL 5A Volleyball State Champions

Most recent: 2016 5A

Amarillo High School, a Class 5A powerhouse in the Texas Panhandle, boasts a strong volleyball program. The Sandies have demonstrated their competitive spirit and skill on the court, achieving significant success within the University Interscholastic League (UIL) framework.

The Amarillo High School volleyball team proudly claimed a UIL 5A State Championship in 2016. This accomplishment stands as a highlight for the program, reflecting the dedication and hard work of the athletes and coaching staff in the heart of Amarillo.

State titles
2016
Most recent
2016
Class
5A
The moment

The 2016 UIL 5A State Championship represents a pinnacle for Amarillo High School volleyball.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

Everything Near Amarillo

233 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • The Yellow Name

    You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: amarillo is the Spanish word for yellow. The Texas city was first called Oneida, then renamed for nearby Amarillo Lake and Creek, probably…

  • Is the Sun Really Yellow?

    You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: sunlight contains a broad range of visible wavelengths and looks essentially white from space. From the ground it can appear yellow because…

  • Why Yellow Gets Your Attention

    You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: yellow is highly visible in many daylight conditions and contrasts strongly with dark lettering, helping explain yellow school buses and…

  • Leaves, Lemons, Mustard, and Gold

    You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: different chemistry can arrive at similar-looking yellow. Carotenoid pigments help color corn, bananas, and autumn leaves; when leaf…

  • Amarillo, TX

    Amarillo is situated near the Panhandle Field, a productive gas and oil area covering 200,000 acres in various counties, including Potter County. The city is also located near the Canadian River, which divides the…

  • Dust Bowl - Texas Panhandle · Historical Marker

    The Texas Panhandle was at the center of the Dust Bowl, the catastrophic ecological and agricultural disaster of the 1930s caused by drought and destructive farming practices.

  • Hayden Pedigo (musician)

    Hayden Pedigo is twenty-nine, from Amarillo, and if you want to know what he does, he'll just read you his own Wikipedia page: avant-garde musician, politician, performance artist, and model. He's put out seven albums,…

  • Palo Duro Canyon State Park

    They call Palo Duro the second-biggest canyon system in the country — and depending on who's measuring, and how, you'll get an argument. What nobody argues is the size of the thing: a hundred and twenty miles long,…

  • Yellow Stories, Journalism, and Fever

    You're in Amarillo, Texas, so here's the color yellow tangent behind the name: the Yellow Brick Road belongs to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and became a shorthand for an inviting path whose destination…

  • The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day · Local history

    Most people picture the Texas Panhandle as flat as a skillet, and standing out there with nothing but wind, horizon, and that wide-open sky for company, it's hard to argue. But zoom out on the map and you'll notice the…

  • Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, First Railroad Through the Texas Panhandle · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    Pioneered transportation in the old buffalo and Indian frontier and the open-range cattle empire. Organized by Fort Worth citizens. Although chartered by the Texas Legislature on May 26, 1873, the actual building was…

  • Thompson, General Ernest O. · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    Acknowledged world leader in petroleum conservation. A third generation Texan. Left college for World War I, earning battlefield promotion to Lieutenant Colonel--youngest in the U.S. Army. In 1930 gained national…

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  • Santa Fe 5000 · 0.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Ever wondered what a 'Texas' type steam locomotive looks like? You're in luck! This is Santa Fe 5000, nicknamed the 'Madam Queen'. Built in 1930 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, the Madam Queen was a 2-10-4 steam locomotive…

  • Browning, Judge James Nathan, Homesite of · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is the homesite of Judge James Nathan Browning. He started life with just a few months of schooling, teaching himself law by reading at night by pine knot light! After…

  • A.T. & S.F. No. 5000 "Madam Queen" · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of a true legend of the rails! This is the story of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's No. 5000, affectionately nicknamed 'Madam Queen'. Built in December <say-as interpret-as="date"…

  • Potter County, Establishing of · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a land shaped by Native American tribes, Spanish explorers, and the relentless expansion of the frontier. This area, now Potter County, was officially created by the Texas…

  • Henry B. Sanborn · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and you're passing the site of a man who truly shaped this city: Henry B. Sanborn. Sanborn wasn't born Texan, but in 1875, he became the Texas sales agent for barbed wire, a brand-new…

  • Amarillo · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, a city born from a railroad and a creek! The name comes from Arroyo Amarillo, a Spanish creek nearby. But the real boom started in 1887 when the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad…

  • Potter County Courthouse · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Potter County Courthouse in Amarillo, a building that rose from the dust of a massive oil boom. Back in the 1920s, the Panhandle was booming, and Amarillo's population nearly tripled! To handle…

  • Potter County Library · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is a building that started with a dozen local women in 1902. They organized the Potter County free library, raising money through bazaars and candy sales. Mr. and Mrs.…

  • Merge or Sling: How the Storm Dance Ends · 1.0 mi

    When two storms lock into the Fujiwhara dance, it can end one of two ways, and the deciding factor is size. If the two are badly mismatched, the bigger system simply wins: it pulls the smaller storm into a tight circle…

  • Landspouts · 1.0 mi

    Out here in storm country, not every twister is born the same way. A landspout is the quiet cousin of the big supercell tornado. With a classic supercell, the spin starts high up inside the storm, in a rotating updraft…

  • Potter County · 1.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Potter County, named for Robert Potter. He was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and served as Secretary of the Navy for the Republic of Texas. This county was formed in 1876, with…

  • First Transcontinental Air Service to Texas Panhandle, Amarillo Municipal Airpor · 1.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Amarillo's historic airport, the site of a major aviation milestone. On May 29, 1929, Western Air Express launched the first segment of transcontinental air service right here, flying a Fokker…

  • Santa Fe Building · 1.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and look up! You're passing the Santa Fe Building, once the tallest skyscraper in town. Built between 1928 and 1930 for a cool million and a half dollars, this 14-story marvel was the…

  • American Legion Hanson Post No. 54 · 1.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Amarillo's American Legion Hanson Post, organized way back in July of <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1919</say-as>. It's named for Dr. David T. Hanson, a local doctor who died…

  • Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Amarillo, a city born from the railroad. Back on August 30th, <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1887</say-as>, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad's construction spurred the founding of…

  • Bivins Home · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the elegant home of Lee Bivins, built right here in Amarillo back in 1905. Bivins wasn't just a rancher; he was a real pioneer in the Panhandle's oil and gas industry. He was also a philanthropist…

  • Site of Significant Archeological Find, American Mammoths · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here, back in 1928, construction workers digging the basement for the Santa Fe Railway building hit a real jackpot. They unearthed the remains of an American Mammoth! These…

  • Fisk Medical Arts & Professional Building · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Fisk Medical Arts and Professional Building, a skyscraper that was commissioned in 1926 by Charles A. Fisk and other investors. Designed by Amarillo architect Guy A. Carlander, this eleven-story…

  • Cadillac Ranch: Art in a Wheat Field · 1.4 mi

    If you're heading west of Amarillo on I-40, keep your eyes peeled for one of the strangest and most wonderful sights in America: Cadillac Ranch. You can’t miss it—ten classic Cadillac cars, from a 1949 Club Coupe to a…

  • The Big Texan and the 72-Ounce Steak · 1.4 mi

    You can't talk about Amarillo without mentioning The Big Texan Steak Ranch. You've probably seen the billboards for hundreds of miles. This iconic restaurant, with its bright yellow walls and giant cowboy sign, is a…

  • The Science of the Helium Capital · 1.4 mi

    Amarillo's nickname, 'Helium Capital of the World,' isn't just boosterism—it's based on unique geology and engineering. In the 1920s, drillers discovered the Cliffside Gas Field nearby. This natural gas reserve was…

  • The Mother Road's Path Through Amarillo · 1.4 mi

    The highway you're on, Interstate 40, is what replaced the legendary Route 66. But the spirit of the 'Mother Road' is still alive and well here in Amarillo. The old highway had two lives in this town. The original…

  • Pantex: The Nation's Nuclear Custodian · 1.4 mi

    About 17 miles northeast of Amarillo, in Carson County, sits one of the most secure and secretive facilities in the United States: the Pantex Plant. Originally built during World War II as a conventional bomb factory,…

  • Old First Baptist Church · 1.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Amarillo's first Baptist Church, organized way back in September of 1889 with just sixteen members. Their first meeting house, built in 1890, had a belfry made of cedar posts and a…

  • International Harvester Building · 1.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past International Harvester Building. Founded in 1902 when J.P. Morgan merged several harvesting companies, the International Harvester Company came to Amarillo in 1919. By 1925, the company made plans…

  • Henry Bradley Sanborn · 1.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former home of Henry Bradley Sanborn, the man they call the 'Father of Amarillo.' Born in New York, he came to Texas in 1875 as a sales agent for barbed wire inventor J.F. Glidden. Sanborn was…

  • Wild Horse Lake · 1.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past what used to be Wild Horse Lake, also known as Amarillo Lake. This playa lake was a lifeline for everyone crossing the high plains – from buffalo and wild horses to Native Americans, explorers, and…

  • Polk Street Schools · 1.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Amarillo's early public schools on Polk Street. The first, a Red Brick School, opened in 1900 for over 280 students, some arriving on horseback. By 1911, Amarillo High School was built…

  • Juan de Padilla · 1.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and you're passing the site of a true Texas first: the martyrdom of Father Fray Juan de Padilla. <break time="400ms"/> In <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1540</say-as>, he…

  • Saint Mary's Academy · 1.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is the site of St. Mary's Academy. Established way back in 1899 by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, this school wasn't always in Amarillo. It started sixty…

  • Polk Street United Methodist Church · 1.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Polk Street United Methodist Church. The congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South was organized on November 23, 1888, by Rev. Isaac Mills, Rev. Jerome Haralson and eight members. The…

  • Husband, Rick Douglas · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Rick Douglas Husband, astronaut, pilot, U. S. Air Force colonel, and Flight Commander of STS-107 Columbia , was born on July 12, 1957, in Amarillo, Texas, to Douglas Earl Husband and Jane Virginia (Barbagallo) Husband.…

  • Marsh, Stanley III [3] · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Stanley Marsh III, businessman, prankster, and public artist, was born in Amarillo, Texas, on January 31, 1938. He was the son of Stanley and Estelle Elizabeth (Fariss) Marsh. Heir to a fortune made by his grandfather…

  • Amarillo Natatorium [The Nat] · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    The Amarillo Natatorium, a celebrated club and landmark located at 2705 W. 6th Avenue in Amarillo, opened in July 1922. Originally designed by local architect Guy Carlander, the facility was constructed to surround an…

  • Bivins, Lee · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Right here in the Texas Panhandle, you're driving through the heart of a cattle empire built by Lee Bivins. Born in Grayson County in 1862, Bivins developed a passion for ranching early on. By the 1880s, he was making…

  • Farley, Cal · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is the legacy of Cal Farley. This former wrestling champ and minor league baseball player came to Amarillo after World War I and built a business empire. But Farley's real…

  • Finklea, Tula Ellice [Cyd Charisse] · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the hometown of Cyd Charisse, born Tula Ellice Finklea in 1922. A frail child who battled polio, she found her strength and passion in dance, starting lessons at age six. Her father,…

  • Herring, Cornelius Taylor · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, an empire built on cattle, railroads, and big dreams. Right here, Cornelius Taylor Herring, known as Neal, was a titan. By 1878, he was already running cattle in Archer…

  • Jones, Carolyn Sue · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, Texas, the hometown of Carolyn Jones, the actress who brought Morticia Addams to life. Born here in the 1930s, she was a loner who found escape in the movies. After graduating from…

  • Mesa Petroleum Corporation · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here is where a titan of the oil industry got his start. Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. founded Mesa Petroleum in 1956, choosing the name for the picturesque,…

  • Nutt, Grady Lee · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the birthplace of Grady Lee Nutt, born right here on September 2, 1934. Licensed as a Baptist minister at thirteen, Nutt became known nationwide not just for his faith, but for his…

  • O'Keeffe, Georgia Totto · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here, the world-famous artist Georgia O'Keeffe found her inspiration. In 1912, she arrived in this dusty Panhandle town, seeking adventure and the wide-open spaces she'd read…

  • Pickens, Thomas Boone, Jr. · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the childhood home of one of America's most notorious corporate raiders, T. Boone Pickens. He started small here, with a newspaper route, but his ambition was huge. After college, he…

  • Sanborn, Henry Bradley · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, Texas, a city that owes its very existence to barbed wire and a visionary named Henry Bradley Sanborn. Back in 1875, Sanborn, a successful businessman from Illinois, was tasked with…

  • Thornton, Ward A. [Tex] · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a place where Ward A. "Tex" Thornton made his name. Thornton was a master of explosives, and he became legendary for fighting oil well fires. In the 1920s, the Panhandle's…

  • Edwards Hall, Frances Leta Exum · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is where Frances Leta Exum Edwards Hall took over the Dr Pepper bottling plant in 1952. She inherited the business after her husband died, knowing absolutely nothing about…

  • Amarillo Livestock Auction · 1.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, the heart of the Texas Panhandle's ranching empire. Back in the late 1870s, this region was being transformed. Indians were expelled, buffalo herds vanished, and the first permanent…

  • Helium Production · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Helium, a light, nonflammable, chemically inert gas, was first produced in Texas from the natural gases of the Petrolia oilfield , in Clay County, during World War I . Experimental plants were constructed in that area…

  • Wyatt, James Odis · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    James Odis Wyatt, physician and community leader, was born on November 30, 1906, in Victoria. He attended Temple and Dunbar school at San Angelo and graduated from Samuel Huston College (now Huston-Tillotson College) in…

  • Bivins, Mary Elizabeth Gilbert · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is a place connected to Mary Bivins, a woman who left an incredible mark on this city. She moved here with her husband Lee around the turn of the last century, when he was…

  • Bush, William Henry · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a place that owes a lot to a young man from New York who came here in 1879. William Henry Bush arrived as an agent for his father-in-law, the inventor of barbed wire. His…

  • Coble, William Thomas · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here is land once owned by William Thomas Coble. He arrived in Texas as a boy, working farms for fifteen dollars a month. But Coble had bigger dreams. He saved $400,…

  • Funk, Dorrance Wilhelm · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving past Amarillo, home of a wrestling legend who was as much a humanitarian as a "two-fisted buster" in the ring. Dory Funk arrived here in 1949, quickly gaining a reputation for his intimidating style. But…

  • Gould, Charles Newton · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here, in the early 1900s, geologist Charles Newton Gould was mapping the land. He was on horseback and in covered wagons, surveying underground water resources for…

  • Hazelrigg, Mary Lou Harris · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here in the North Heights neighborhood, you're passing a place that holds a lot of holiday magic. Back in 1965, Mary Lou Hazelrigg saw that many local kids might not have a…

  • Leidigh, Arthur Henry · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, maybe near Amarillo, where a groundbreaking agronomist named Arthur Henry Leidigh was hard at work over a century ago. From 1903 to 1908, he led USDA experiment stations right…

  • Marsh, Stanley · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the heart of the Texas Panhandle. Right here, Stanley Marsh made his mark in the oil fields. Arriving in 1926, he partnered up to develop major oil and gas properties. Marsh was…

  • McBride, David Nichols · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here, David Nichols McBride carved out a life from the raw frontier. He arrived in Amarillo back in 1887, just after Potter County was organized. He claimed land…

  • Mead, Ben Carlton · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through North Texas, maybe near Amarillo, where you can still see the legacy of Ben Carlton Mead. Born in 1902, Mead became a renowned western artist and illustrator, known for his incredible attention to…

  • Nobles, Millard Clinton · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here, you're passing through the heart of Texas oil history. Millard Clinton Nobles, a businessman who already ran a successful grocery company, turned his attention to the…

  • O. M. Franklin Serum Company · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the birthplace of a major veterinary breakthrough. Back in 1916, veterinarian O. M. Franklin developed the first successful blackleg vaccine in the United States. Blackleg was…

  • Potter County · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Potter County, the heart of the Texas Panhandle. This land was once roamed by ancient peoples and later by Comanches. But right here, in 1887, a brand new town was born out of a railroad…

  • Shelton, John M. · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Panhandle, and right here, you might be passing through country once owned by John M. Shelton. Born in 1853, Shelton started out on the open range in Shackelford County, wearing the same shirt…

  • Taylor, Jay · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here is a region shaped by giants of industry and ranching. Jay Taylor, born in Montague County in 1902, found his calling not on the open range, but in the booming…

  • Thompson, Ernest Othmer · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here, you're passing through the territory once dominated by Ernest O. Thompson. Born in Alvord in 1892, Thompson became a shrewd entrepreneur and a decorated World…

  • Wrather, John Devereaux, Jr. · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Right here in Amarillo, Texas, you're passing through the birthplace of John "Jack" Wrather, Jr. Born in 1918, he wasn't just an oilman; he was a media mogul and a hotelier. After inheriting his father's oil company,…

  • Amarillo, TX · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, a city born from a railroad and a bit of a land dispute. It all started in 1887 when the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway pushed into the Panhandle. A group of merchants saw the…

  • Fuqua, Wiley Holder · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Wiley Holder Fuqua, banker and businessman, the son of William M. and Elizabeth (Milam) Fuqua, was born on September 13, 1862, in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. His father, a Baptist minister, was also a prosperous…

  • Amarillo Symphony · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, home to the only professional symphony in the entire Panhandle region. It all started back in 1924 with just twelve musicians, calling themselves the Philharmonic Club. They played…

  • Amarillo, Catholic Diocese of · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here, the Catholic Church has put down deep roots. It all started picking up steam in 1887, when the Fort Worth and Denver Railway arrived. Priests began traveling…

  • Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here, the story of Amarillo's connection to the wider world begins. It was June of <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1901</say-as> when the Choctaw, Oklahoma…

  • Crudgington, Jonathan Wilford · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, a city that owes much of its early development to a man named Jonathan Wilford Crudgington. Born in Tennessee in 1859, Crudgington came to Texas and got involved in railroad contracting,…

  • Diamond Shamrock · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Texas, and right here, you might be passing by the legacy of Diamond Shamrock. This company wasn't just one thing; it was a massive merger of three businesses. One part, Shamrock Oil and Gas,…

  • Guleke, James O. · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, a city James O. Guleke called home. Born in Grayson County in 1891, Guleke became a lawyer and a major civic leader here. He was instrumental in developing Palo Duro Canyon State Park…

  • Madden, Squire H. · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the "Queen City" of the Panhandle. Right here is where Squire H. Madden, a lawyer who arrived in the 1880s, helped secure this city's future. When a rival railroad threatened to bypass…

  • Plemons, William Buford · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Panhandle, perhaps near Amarillo, and you're passing through the territory of William Buford Plemons. He was a Confederate soldier, wounded three times and present at Appomattox. After the…

  • Twichell, Willis Day · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, a land shaped by surveyors like Willis Day Twichell. Arriving in 1886, Twichell used advanced techniques, correcting for the Earth's curvature, to map out vast ranches like the XIT and…

  • Vandale, Earl · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, a city that became home to one of Texas's most passionate collectors: Earl Vandale. While he made his fortune in the oil business, Vandale's real love was Texana. Starting in the 1920s,…

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Amarillo · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is the site of a major victory for veterans' care. Back in the 1930s, Congressman John Marvin Jones championed a bill to build a veterans' sanatorium in this area. After a…

  • Ware, Benjamin Taliaferro · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here, in Amarillo, you're passing through the heart of a cattle empire built by Benjamin Taliaferro Ware. Born in Georgia, Ware's family lost their plantation during…

  • Shuford-Killough House · 1.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Amarillo, and right here is the Shuford-Killough House, built in 1913 for cattleman J.D. Shuford. Take a look at that design – it's a prime example of the Prairie School style, with its wide…

  • Amarillo College · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here, in the heart of the city, stood the original Amarillo College. It wasn't built by the state or a big donor. Instead, in 1897, two local men, Willis Twichell and James…

  • Archambeau, Ernest R. · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is a place tied to Ernest Archambeau, a man who dedicated his life to preserving the history of the Texas Panhandle. Arriving in 1914, he spent decades as an insurance…

  • Defalco, Lawrence Michael · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, perhaps near Amarillo, where Lawrence DeFalco served as the fifth bishop of the Catholic Diocese. He was consecrated right here in Fort Worth in <say-as interpret-as="date"…

  • Don and Sybil Harrington Foundation · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the heart of the Texas Panhandle. Right here is where oilman Donald Harrington and his wife Sybil decided to invest their fortune. In 1951, they founded the Don and Sybil Harrington…

  • FitzSimon, Laurence Julius · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the city that was home to Bishop Laurence FitzSimon, a man dedicated to both faith and history. Born in San Antonio in 1895, FitzSimon's life took him from Texas towns to Rome and back,…

  • Fuqua, Henry Earl · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here in Floyd County, Henry Earl Fuqua was planting thousands of acres of wheat back in 1919. But Fuqua wasn't just a farmer; he was a banker, eventually chairman of…

  • Furr, Crone Webster · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here in Amarillo, you're passing through the heart of a grocery empire! Crone Webster Furr started small, with a crossroads store near McKinney in the late 1800s. By…

  • Gerken, Rudolph Aloysius · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo, the first Catholic bishop of this city. Rudolph Gerken arrived here in 1927 to lead a brand new diocese. In just six years, he built twenty churches, thirteen rectories, six schools, and…

  • Jones, John Marvin · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Cooke County, the birthplace of John Marvin Jones, a man who became a giant in shaping American agriculture. Born in Valley View in 1882, Jones went on to serve as a Congressman and later as…

  • Nunn, Joseph Elbert · 1.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Amarillo right now, and you might be surprised to learn that a prominent figure in the city's early development was a former Kentucky minister and educator. Joseph Elbert Nunn moved here in 1903,…

  • The H.B. Sanborn House · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and you might be passing one of the city's oldest homes. This is the H.B. Sanborn House, built way back in 1902. Henry Bradley Sanborn was a major player in Amarillo's early development.…

  • Galbraith, H.W. and Katie, House · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the H.W. and Katie Galbraith House in Amarillo, built in 1912. This two-story home is a beautiful example of Craftsman architecture, with its quality clapboards, exposed rafters, and shingled roof.…

  • Herring-Crudgington House · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Herring-Crudgington House in Amarillo, a beautiful example of Classical Revival architecture. Built in 1910 for the wealthy Day Herring ranching family, it boasted a grand entry portico with…

  • Houghton House · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and you might catch a glimpse of the Houghton House, a beautiful example of Prairie Style architecture. Built in 1914 for John Malcolm Shelton, a big-time cattleman and businessman, this…

  • Northwest Texas Hospital School of Nursing · 1.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former Northwest Texas Hospital School of Nursing in Amarillo. Designed by prominent architect Guy Carlander in 1924, this building was part of a larger hospital complex born out of the…

  • Avery and Mary Turner House · 1.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Avery and Mary Turner House, built in 1910. Avery worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for nearly 60 years, while Mary was active in the Red Cross and Salvation Army. This home, modeled after Mary's…

  • Ranchotel · 2.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pull over here for a slice of Route 66 history! The Ranchotel has been offering weary travelers a place to rest their heads since 1940. Back then, U.S. Route 66 was *the* road, connecting Chicago to Los Angeles. The…

  • Alice Victoria Ghormley Curtis House · 2.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Alice Victoria Ghormley Curtis House, built between 1906 and 1907. Designed by local contractor J. D. Singleton, it was built for the widow of Texas Ranger W. R. Curtis. Mrs. Curtis raised her…

  • Route 66 in Amarillo · 2.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo on a road that was once called the 'Main Street of America' and the 'Mother Road.' Route 66, the first paved transcontinental highway, stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles. Here in…

  • Eakle-Archer House · 2.1 mi · Historical Marker

    As you drive through Amarillo, look for a truly unique home, designed by architect Guy A. Carlander. Built in 1923, this craftsman bungalow looks like an airplane! Its upper floor is designed like a cockpit, with…

  • Amarillo Natatorium ("The Nat") · 2.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right here is the site of the Amarillo Natatorium, better known as 'The Nat'! Opened in 1922 as an open-air swimming pool, it was enclosed the next year for year-round use. By 1926,…

  • Eakle, Clarence and Lorraine House · 2.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Eakle House in Amarillo, a beautiful example of Tudor Revival architecture. Built in 1925, this home was designed by noted Amarillo architect Guy Carlander for early business and civic leaders…

  • Amarillo Tri-State Fair · 2.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the historic grounds of the Amarillo Tri-State Fair! Horse races and fairs have been happening here since the 1890s, with the Panhandle State Fair kicking off in 1913. After a wartime pause, Amarillo…

  • Edward L. and Margaret Seewald Roberts House · 2.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the home of Edward and Margaret Roberts in Amarillo. Designed by Harold Walsh in 1949, this house was built with heavy input from Margaret, a student of Georgia O'Keeffe who became a nationally…

  • Russell Hall · 2.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Russell Hall, the first permanent building on the Amarillo College campus. Originally the Badger Gymnasium, it was built between 1937 and 1939 with federal funding. Designed in the geometric Art Deco…

  • Ordway Hall · 2.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Ordway Hall, a building that's a real work of art. Built between 1936 and 1937, it was designed by architect Guy Carlander in a striking Geometric Art Deco style. Look for the buff brick and cast…

  • Llano Cemetery · 2.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Llano Cemetery, a regional burial ground for the Texas Panhandle. Land was given in 1891, but the earliest known burial was Lillian Morrow in 1888, legend says a child interred by her traveling…

  • Fain, Mary (Masterson) and John, House · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Fain House in Amarillo, a beautiful example of Colonial Revival architecture built in 1930. What makes this house unique is that it was built alongside its identical 'twin' next door, designed by…

  • The Big Texan Steak Ranch · 2.7 mi · Attraction

    Along Interstate 40 in Amarillo, The Big Texan Steak Ranch has served travelers since 1960. It is best known for its 72-ounce steak challenge, where diners attempt to finish a massive meal within one hour. The…

  • Melissa Dora Oliver-Eakle · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of a true Amarillo pioneer, Melissa Dora Oliver-Eakle. She arrived here in 1889, a widow with a personal fortune. She invested heavily in the growing frontier town, developing land for…

  • The Nineteen Thirty Seven Road From Texline to Orange · 2.9 mi

    On May eighteenth, nineteen thirty seven, a Texas highway minute order gave the name Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Highway to a chain of roads. The route started at the New Mexico state line at Texline and ran to…

  • Amarillo Globe Dream House · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Amarillo Globe Dream House, built in 1925. This Tudor Revival home was a real estate and newspaper collaboration, designed to showcase local craftsmanship and materials. The Amarillo…

  • William Henry Bush · 3.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Amarillo, and right around here, the Frying Pan Ranch once dominated the landscape. Founded back in 1881 by Henry Sanborn and J.F. Glidden, the very inventor of barbed wire! Their partnership…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Tascosa (Amarillo) · 3.4 mi

    Tascosa (Amarillo, TX) placed on the 5A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Jaxon Armstrong (0.500 avg); Sam Adams (0.453 avg, 2 HR).

  • Smith-Rogers House · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Smith-Rogers House in Amarillo. Built around 1904 for early settlers James and Marie Smith, this home originally stood on South Taylor Street. In 1945, Jesse A. Rogers bought the property,…

  • Helium Time Columns Monument and Museum · 4.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Amarillo, and you might notice this monument to a gas that's literally out of this world! This Helium Time Columns Monument commemorates the 100th anniversary of helium's discovery in the sun's…

  • St. Anthony's Hospital · 5.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past St. Anthony's Hospital. This marks site of Potter County's first hospital organized by Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word on invitation of Father David H. Dunne, Pastor of St. Mary's Church in…

  • Amarillo · 5.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Amarillo, a city that sprang to life in 1887. Its name comes from the Spanish for 'yellow creek,' thanks to a nearby stream. Amarillo quickly became a hub for transportation and finance, and by…

  • Ozymandias on the Plains · 6.2 mi · Historical Marker

    Two enormous concrete legs rise from the flat Panhandle grass near Amarillo, broken off at the thighs, with nothing above them but sky. There is no torso, no head, no plaque that fully explains. A small sign at the base…

  • Amarillo Helium Plant · 7.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Amarillo Helium Plant, a place that literally held the world's supply of a vital element. From 1929 to 1943, this plant was the first in the world to extract helium from the Texas…

  • Cadillac Ranch · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker

    In 1974, a San Francisco art collective called the Ant Farm convinced an eccentric Amarillo millionaire named Stanley Marsh 3 to let them bury ten Cadillacs nose-down in his wheat field. The cars span model years 1949…

  • Cadillac Ranch · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker

    Ten Cadillacs buried nose-first in a Panhandle wheat field since 1974, commissioned by eccentric Amarillo billionaire Stanley Marsh 3.

  • National Helium Reserve - Amarillo · 9.6 mi · Historical Marker

    For most of the twentieth century, a porous rock formation beneath the Texas Panhandle held the largest stockpile of helium on the planet, and almost nobody knew it was there. The Federal Helium Reserve was established…

  • The Road Builder Who Backed the Ballet · 10.0 mi

    Business U S Two Eighty Seven inside Amarillo is the L. P. "Pete" Gilvin Memorial Highway, and the man it honors built roads for a living. A lifetime Amarillo resident, Pete Gilvin graduated from Amarillo High School,…

  • The Town That Built a Gate · 11.0 mi

    As you passed through the gate to enter Lake Tanglewood, you experienced the single most important feature of this community. This place was built as a private, year-round residential resort, laid out in the early 1960s…

  • The Man Who Made a Lake · 11.0 mi

    Every drop of water in Lake Tanglewood is here because some men would not take no for an answer. In the early 1960s Roy Stockton, a construction supervisor, made a deal with John Currie to throw a dam across Palo Duro…

  • Engineering a Panhandle Oasis · 11.0 mi

    The lake at the heart of this village is a piece of civil engineering that had to be built twice. Work began in 1961 on an earth-fill dam across Palo Duro Creek, in a canyon that gets long droughts broken by violent…

  • Smyth, Rawleigh Porteus · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Plainview, the town that Rawleigh Porteus Smyth helped lay out. Born in Austin in 1855, Smyth was a Brigadier General after serving in the Spanish-American War. He was also a surveyor, mapping out…

  • Lake Tanglewood, TX · 11.0 mi

    The village of Lake Tanglewood is a tapestry of ethnicities, with the 2000 census revealing a diverse population. The racial makeup of the village was predominantly White at 98.06%, with Native American comprising…

  • Palisades State Park Concession Building · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Palisades State Park, established during the Great Depression. In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps built this concession building, designed by local architect Guy Anton Carlander.…

  • St. Francis Catholic Church Community · 11.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the St. Francis Catholic Church Community near Amarillo. German Catholic settlers, drawn by colonization efforts, began moving here in 1907, forming the nucleus of the parish. Though town…

  • St. Francis Catholic Church · 11.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past St. Francis Catholic Church. St. Francis Church commemorates a century of Eucharistic clebrations growing in love of God, family, land and country as a strong fiath community-March 13, 2008.

  • Bush Dome Reservoir and Cliffside Field Terminal · 12.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, near Amarillo, and right here is a hidden treasure: the Bush Dome Reservoir. Discovered in 1924, this underground formation holds a massive reserve of helium, a gas vital for…

  • LX Ranch · 12.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, the heart of what was once the LX Ranch. Established in 1877 by Boston businessmen, this massive spread started with just a few herds driven north from Colorado. By 1878, they…

  • Pitcher Creek · 12.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Potter County, heading north or south on Highway 87 between Amarillo and Dumas. Right here, just off the road, is Pitcher Creek. It got its name from a buffalo hunter named Pitcher, who set up the…

  • Tecovas Creek · 12.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Potter County, near the headwaters of Tecovas Creek. Its name comes from the Spanish word for 'tents,' and for centuries, this was a place where different cultures met. For generations, it was a…

  • Winters, John Howard · 12.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through what is now Potter County, a place that was home to John Howard Winters. He wasn't a soldier or an outlaw, but he held a powerful position for over two decades. In 1943, Winters was appointed…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Bushland (Bushland) · 13.2 mi

    Bushland (Bushland, TX) placed on the 3A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Wade McConnell (0.654 avg, 9 HR); Colton Strickland (0.500 avg, 2 HR); Lane Farrell (2 HR).

  • Bushland, TX · 13.3 mi

    Bushland was established as a station on the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway. The town was named for William Henry Bush, who was the son-in-law of Joseph Glidden, the inventor of barbed wire. In 1898, Glidden…

  • Fort Smith-Santa Fe Trail Gregg Route, 1840 · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and just southwest of here, you might still spot faint traces of a vital overland route. This was the Fort Smith-Santa Fe Trail, pioneered by Josiah Gregg. On March 15, 1840,…

  • XIT Ranch Historical Marker · 14.4 mi · Historical Marker

    In 1882, the Texas state capitol burned down, and the state was broke. The legislature made an extraordinary deal: they traded three million acres of Panhandle land — an area larger than Connecticut — to a Chicago…

  • Woody Guthrie's Panhandle Years · 14.8 mi

    U.S. Highway Sixty across the Texas Panhandle is the Woody Guthrie Memorial Highway, named for the Oklahoma born folk singer who spent seven years in the Panhandle. Oil was discovered around Pampa in nineteen twenty…

  • Town of Washburn · 14.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Claude, but just a bit west of here, you're passing the original site of Washburn. Planned in 1887 by R. E. Montgomery, son-in-law of the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway president, Washburn was…

  • Washburn, TX · 15.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Armstrong County, and right here is Washburn, a town that sprang up practically overnight. Back in 1887, this spot became the end of the line for the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. Promoters…

  • Col. John I. Gregg 1872 Battle Site · 15.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a land shaped by conflict. It's 1872, and the post-Civil War era is seeing settlers push west, often clashing with Native American tribes. The U.S. Army launched campaigns to…

  • T Anchor Ranch · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the vast plains once known as the T Anchor Ranch. In the fall of 1877, Leigh Dyer, Walter Dyer, and Samuel Coleman arrived with about 400 head of cattle and built a simple log cabin. By 1881, this…

  • Settled by Goodnight's brother-in-law · 16.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Randall County, named for Confederate General Horace Randall. It was created in 1876 and settled just a year later by Leigh Dyer, brother-in-law to the famous cattleman Charles Goodnight. The…

  • Randall County · 16.3 mi · Historical Marker

    Created 1876; named for Confederate general Horace Randall. Settled 1877 by rancher Leigh Dyer, brother-in-law of Charles Goodnight, man who brought first cattle to Panhandle. Organized in 1889. County seat: Canyon.…

  • St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery near Canyon. This quiet resting place has roots stretching back to the early 1900s, when German immigrants began settling this area. By 1909, they had established a school…

  • Randall County · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Randall County, created in 1876 and named for Confederate General Horace Randal. Rancher Leigh Dyer, brother-in-law to cattle pioneer Charles Goodnight, settled here in 1877. The county was…

  • The man who brought the first cattle · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Randall County, Texas. Created in 1876 and named for Confederate General Horace Randal, this Panhandle county was first settled by rancher Leigh Dyer in 1877. Dyer was the brother-in-law of…

  • Settled by rancher Leigh Dyer · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Randall County, created in 1876 and named for Confederate General Horace Randal. Rancher Leigh Dyer, brother-in-law of cattle baron Charles Goodnight, settled here in 1877. The county was…

  • First Baptist Church · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Canyon's First Baptist Church. Organized in 1890 with seven members, the congregation built the town's first church edifice in 1899. Their present structure was begun in 1929 and finished…

  • The Plant Where the Nation Takes Weapons Apart · 16.5 mi

    Out on the flat plains northeast of Amarillo sits Pantex, the United States' primary facility for the final assembly, maintenance, and disassembly of the nation's nuclear weapons. The part that surprises people is what…

  • Trusting Old Machines Without Turning Them On · 16.5 mi

    Here is a genuine science puzzle. The United States stopped live nuclear testing in 1992. So how do you stay confident that weapons built decades ago still work, when you've promised never to set one off to find out?…

  • The Careful Science of Things That Go Bang · 16.6 mi

    Some of the most demanding science at Pantex is the chemistry of high explosives, and the basic idea is more interesting than the bang. An explosive is just a material engineered to release its stored chemical energy…

  • Seeing Inside Without Opening It Up · 16.6 mi

    Here's a problem that shows up everywhere, not just at Pantex: how do you inspect the inside of a sealed, delicate part without taking it apart or harming it? The answer is a family of techniques called nondestructive…

  • The Highway Commissioner's Interstate · 16.7 mi

    Interstate Twenty Seven between Lubbock and Amarillo is the Marshall Formby Memorial Highway, named for a man who once chaired the Texas Highway Commission. Marshall Formby was born in nineteen eleven and moved with his…

  • Conner, Lincoln Guy · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Randall County, and right here is Canyon, a town that owes its very existence to Lincoln Guy Conner. After building a cattle herd in Clay County, Conner drove his 350 head into the Panhandle in…

  • Dyer, Leigh Richmond · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a land shaped by tough pioneers like Leigh Richmond Dyer. He started as a drover for Charles Goodnight in 1867, driving cattle on the famous Goodnight-Loving Trail. By 1875,…

  • Harper, Margaret Pease · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here is the place that inspired a monumental outdoor musical drama. Margaret Pease Harper, a woman with a vision, saw the dramatic potential of Palo Duro Canyon.…

  • Hutson, Lee John · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here in Randall County, you're passing through the heart of ranching country, thanks to pioneers like Lee John Hutson. Arriving in <say-as interpret-as="date"…

  • Randall County · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Randall County, right here on the Llano Estacado. This land was once the hunting grounds for Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne, and even saw Coronado's expedition camp in Palo Duro Canyon back in…

  • T Anchor Ranch · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here, in what is now Randall County, you're passing through the heart of the historic T Anchor Ranch. It started in the fall of 1877 when Leigh Dyer drove his cattle…

  • Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, and right here near Canyon, you're passing the birthplace of a Texas legend. Back in 1960, professors here had a big idea: bring the history of this vast land to life with an…

  • Canyon, TX (Randall County) · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Canyon, Texas, a town born from the raw beauty of Palo Duro Canyon. Right here, in December 1887, Lincoln Guy Conner surveyed this land and settled. By 1889, he'd laid out the town, his dugout…

  • Cornette, James Percival · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Canyon, and right here is the heart of West Texas A&M University. For over twenty-five years, from 1948 to 1973, James Percival Cornette led this place, transforming it from a college into a…

  • Harrell, Edward Dow · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a land shaped by giants like Edward Dow Harrell. He arrived here in 1890, a Georgia transplant who, along with his brother, first tried his hand at raising horses ten miles…

  • Hill, Joseph Abner · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Joseph Abner Hill, college president, the sixth of eleven children of Francis Patterson and Rachel (Witt) Hill, was born on October 29, 1877, on a cotton farm five miles south of Moody, in Bell County, Texas. His…

  • Sheffy, Lester Fields · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a region rich with history. Right here, you're near where Lester Fields Sheffy spent much of his career. He wasn't just a history professor at West Texas State Normal College…

  • Walker, Darthula Adaline · 16.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, perhaps near Canyon, and right here, in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1920</say-as>, Darthula Adaline Walker arrived at West Texas State Normal College. She wasn't…

  • Barbed Wire Fence in the Panhandle · 17.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the Texas Panhandle, a land once as open as the sky. But in the late 1800s, this vast landscape needed a new kind of boundary. Enter barbed wire. Joseph F. Glidden’s invention, perfected by 1876,…

  • Buffalo Courts · 17.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Buffalo Courts, a unique community project born out of the Great Depression at West Texas State Teachers College. Starting in 1933, students, locals, and government funding came together…

  • Goodnight, The Charles Memorial Trail · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving near Canyon, Texas, and the highway ahead approximates a route blazed by one of the most famous figures of the Texas plains: Charles Goodnight. In <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1876</say-as>,…

  • Georgia O'Keeffe in Canyon · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Canyon, Texas, a place that profoundly shaped the vision of one of America's most famous artists: Georgia O'Keeffe. In <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1916</say-as>, she came to West Texas…

  • Tex Randall · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Tex Randall cowboy statue, a Texas icon standing 47 feet tall and weighing seven tons. Designed and built by Harry Wheeler in 1959, this giant cowboy was created as a roadside welcome…

  • Company F, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, Texas National Guard · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former training grounds for Company F, a unit of Randall County soldiers who fought with the famed 36th Division in World War II. These local men, including ten sets of brothers and a father and…

  • Panhandle-Plains Museum · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Panhandle-Plains Museum in Canyon. Back in 1932, the State of Texas put up twenty-five thousand dollars to match private funds, building the museum's first unit. Since then, it's grown way beyond…

  • J. Evetts Haley · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the birthplace and early stomping grounds of J. Evetts Haley, a giant of Texas history. Born in 1901, he grew up ranching and rodeoing, eventually earning a master's degree focused on the great…

  • Lucille Nance Jones · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former Nance Ranch headquarters, once the heart of a nationally recognized Hereford breeding operation. Lucille Nance Jones took over the ranch after her first husband's death, then later married…

  • Canyon, TX · 17.4 mi · Local history

    Canyon's story is deeply tied to the vastness of the Texas Panhandle. While the text doesn't detail specific pivotal moments like wars or economic booms and busts, it does highlight the establishment of key institutions…

  • Sam Wood Cabin · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Sam Wood Cabin, built in 1887 near Hog Town. Wood was an Indian Scout and a Union veteran of the Civil War. His cabin here once housed six families during an Indian scare, and it was…

  • Hudspeth, Mary E. House · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Mary E. Hudspeth House in Canyon. Built in 1909 by Thomas P. Turk, this house originally stood on Palo Duro Street. When West Texas University opened its doors in 1910, the house was moved to…

  • First Methodist Church of Canyon · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Canyon's first church, organized in October of 1889 by the Rev. B. F. Jackson. He preached in Palo Duro Canyon and held the town's first funeral and wedding in 1891. The original church…

  • Canyon, City of · 17.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Canyon, a town named for the stunning Palo Duro Canyon just a dozen miles east. Imagine settling here on Christmas Day, 1887, facing down blizzards, sandstorms, and swarms of grasshoppers! These…

  • First National Bank · 17.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Canyon, and right here is the site of a bank that helped build this whole region. Organized in 1900 as the Stockman's National Bank, it was the very first bank south of Amarillo. This institution…

  • Wagon Yard, Site of · 17.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Canyon, and right here is the site of the old Ranchman's Wagon Yard, active from about 1890 to 1921. This was the town's go-to spot for cowboys and ranchers. They'd sleep in bedrolls on the ground…

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