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Finch - Lord - Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City TX1595 |
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Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region -- Lue Finch, W.H. Lord, O.H. Nelson -- in 1887 promoted Panhandle City, as railroad line approached. They sent in ten cowboys to stake claims around city, which prospered as county seat. The Finch-Lord-Nelson firm (which included John A. Finch after 1887) left descendants to continue pioneering. Of their 1887 employees, J.E. Southwood and W.D. Jolly also remained. This little red barn is a replica symbolic of frontier structures built by Finch-Lord-Nelson for the 1887 claimsmen.
State Historical Survey Committee, 1968.
5th St. & Elsie St., Square House Museum, Panhandle, Carson County Texas
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