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PAMPA,
TEXASGray County
Seat, Texas
Panhandle
Highways 60, 70, 152, 273
29 miles SE of Borger
40 miles SW of Miami
56 miles NE of
Amarillo
Population 17,887 (2000) 19,959 (1990) |
Pampa
was named by the manager of the White Deer Land Company. According to sources
- he had visited Argentina and the grassly landscape of the Panhandle reminded
him of the Argentine Pampas.
History in a Pecan Shell
1887: city started by being designated a stop on the Southern Kansas Railway known
as Glasgow
1892: post office granted
1902: townsite was platted and Gray
County was organized
1910: population reaches 400
1912: Pampa incorporates
1926: oil discovered
1928: Pampa becomes county seat over Lefors
1931: population over 10,000
1932: Fort Worth and Denver Railroad lays tracks
through Pampa
1934: Famous Dust Storm of "Black Sunday"
1942: Pampa Army Air Field opens east of town
1945: Pampa Army Air Field closes
east of town |
Pamper
Field, Texas
Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/%7Etxpstcrd/ |
Pampa,
Texas Landmarks & Attractions: |
"The
Pampa City Hall was completed in 1930 and designed by Gray County courthouse architect
William R. Kaufman."
- Terry
Jeanson, September 2007 photo
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Recreaction
- Area Lakes
Greenbelt
Reservoir
McClellan
Reservoir
Meredith
Reservoir
Pampa Hotels |
People
Indian
Jim by Mike
Cox ("Texas
Tales" Column)
Barely
50 years after the U.S. Cavalry drove the last hostile Indians out of the Panhandle
an Indian from New York made page-one news in Pampa and across the nation. |
| | The
former Schneider Hotel is now in use as a retirement hotel, and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Photo courtesy Sharon Thomas, July 2006.
See Rooms
with a Past | |
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Guthrie wrote "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You" in Pampa during
a dust storm | |
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