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Pampa
TOP OF TEXAS The community of Pampa, named for the grasslands of Argentina by local ranch manager George Tyng who had once traveled to the South American pampas, grew up around a…
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Panhandle
History runs deep in the city of Panhandle.The restored 1928 Santa Fe depot houses City Hall, and the 1950 Moderne-style Carson County Courthouse remains the seat of county government. A refurbished downtown…
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Perryton
US 83 cuts across pancake-flat farmland in Ochiltree County, the so-called "Wheatheart of the Nation." The highway becomes Main Street in Perryton (the northernmost county seat in Texas) and passes the 192…
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Plains
THE BONUS SHACK The community of Plains, Yoakum County seat, is home to the “bonus shack”, a small wooden structure built in 1903. The “shack” served as temporary home to many of…
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Plainview
HISTORY IN PLAIN VIEW Plainview, a Texas Main Street city, is home to the Museum of the Llano Estacado, repository for the region’s ancient past. Plainview also maintains a remarkable collection of…
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Post
Ranchland became a Utopian town just below the Caprock Escarpment in 1907. That’s when Post Cereal founder and philanthropist, C.W. Post, established his namesake city as a model farming community. In the…
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Quanah
Quanah was established in the 1880s as a railroad stop and named for Comanche chief Quanah Parker, son of Peta Nocona and kidnapped Anglo settler Cynthia Ann Parker. The post office captures…
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Quitaque
A TONGUE TWISTER BUT EASY ON THE EYES In 1865 Comanchero trader José Piedad Tafoya built a trading post on the site of Quitaque, now a small Texas Plains Trail community, in…
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Ralls
Ten miles west of Crosbyton, the town of Ralls began when John R. Ralls divided his large ranch into 160-acre farms and sold them to Midwesterners arriving by train. Housed in a…
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Seagraves
After the town was founded in 1917 as a cattle shipping point, Model T Ford dealer C.M. Armstrong built a brick building with its own water system. The building was one of…
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Seminole
Platted in 1906, the Gaines County seat experienced an oil boom and was incorporated in the 1930s. The County extensively remodeled and added to the 1922 courthouse, now a 1955 Modern building…
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Shamrock
You won’t miss Shamrock on Interstate 40. Just look for the water tower. Built in 1915 and rising 176 feet high, it’s the tallest water tank of its type in Texas. Follow…
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Silverton
In August 1891, Olivia G. Porter, wife of town founder Thomas J. Porter, named the Briscoe County seat of Silverton supposedly from silvery reflections she saw on local playa lakes. Three years…
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Slaton
Rich in railroad, farming and German heritage, Slaton offers visitors a friendly, hometown atmosphere. Located at Slaton Airport, the Texas Air Museum celebrates military aviation from the early 1900s to the present…
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Snyder
In 1876 professional buffalo hunter J. Wright Mooar killed a rare white buffalo on Deep Creek, which flows through today’s Snyder. A few years earlier, Indian hunter Col. Ranald S. MacKenzie blazed…
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Spearman
Spearman, the seat of Hansford County, is home to the county's 1931 Art Moderne courthouse. The early modern brick structure reflects the Depression Era desire of communities to look toward a prosperous…
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Spur
The so-called Beef Bonanza spread like wildfire across the plains during the 1880s, attracting European investors eager to profit from Western cattle. But sometimes drought and declining markets turned cattle booms into…
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Stinnett
DOLLAR DAY Among the attractions in Stinnett, visitors will find the historic McCormick House, one of the oldest surviving structures in the Hutchinson County. Originally located two miles northeast of present-day Stinnett…
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Stratford
After a hotly contested election in 1901, Stratford replaced Coldwater as the county seat. It grew into a two-railroad town and shipping center for cattle and cotton. The 1922 red brick Sherman…
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Tahoka
One hundred residents gathered at Tahoka Lake in 1902 and voted to organize Lynn County and a county seat named Tahoka, a Native American word for “fresh water.” Today, Tahoka’s square boasts…
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Tulia
Fifteen miles east of town, boaters ply the waters of Mackenzie Reservoir where the dramatic red walls of Tule Canyon spill onto the plains. In 1874 Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie camped here…
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Turkey
TURKEY TRACKS The Texas Plains Trail town of Turkey (average population 447) appears to have tipped time’s arrow on its head. Like many rural agrarian communities across Texas, Turkey still depends on…
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Vega
GET YOUR KICKS HERE The community of Vega, organized in the first decade of the twentieth century, is located along historic Route 66 (now Interstate 40) west of Amarillo. Originally established to…
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Wellington
Six miles north of Wellington, in the Collingsworth Pioneer Park, visitors today can camp and picnic where Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and other native groups once pitched their tepees. Commemorating that connection…
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Wheeler
Nineteenth-century Native Americans and white settlers found these high plains abounding with wildlife to hunt. Wheeler County still attracts hunters and bird watchers who come for the area’s white-tailed deer and a…
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White Deer
The statue of a white deer was erected in the center of Main Street in White Deer (Carson County, Texas) in the spring of 1918—the original idea of resident R. A. Thompson…
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Whiteface
The name of the town came from rancher C. C. Slaughter's Whiteface Camp and Whiteface Pasture, which were named in turn for the cattle on his ranch. In 1924 Ira P. DeLoach…