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Planned by R.E. Montgomery, son-in-law of Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Builder-President Gen. G.M. Dodge. Named for family friend. Promoted 1887, Washburn for a time was F.W. & D.C. Line's terminus. It had first newspaper on Plains -- "Armstrong County Record". Also had general store, lumber yard, 2 hotels, 2 saloons. Became junction point, branch line connecting F.W. & D.C. with Santa Fe Railway at Panhandle. Remaining as town dwindled: Judge Jas. Logue, donor cemetery site and founder Washburn State Bank, 1908; H.E. White, owner of store, lumber yard and elevators.
State Historical Survey Committee, 1970.
US-287, W. limits, Washburn, Armstrong County Texas
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