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First United Methodist Church

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Georgia, Decatur County, Bainbridge
Founded in 1823, title to this property was conveyed to the church in 1830 by the Inferior Court, Bainbridge. An initial building was erected about 1840 and was also used during the 1850’s for services by Baptists and Presbyterians. In 1854 an enlarged wooden structure was completed and served the congregation until 1899, when a brick facility was fabricated. Fire destroyed the church in 1906, but the building was replaced by the present structure and hosted the 1911 South Georgia Annual Conference.

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White Deer Land Building

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
Houses property records of the White Deer Land Company (1886-1957), one of the strongest commercial influences in settlement of the Texas Panhandle.

Organized from wreckage of the bankrupt Francklyn Land and Cattle Company—whose chief stockholder was Lord Rosebery, Prime Minister of England—the White Deer Company developed during widespread British speculation in Texas cattle and ranching, 1870s-80s.

At its beginning, the London-financed and Wall-Street-based trust owned land equal in area to the state of Rhode Island. These 631,000 acres lay in Gray, Roberts, Carson, and Hutchinson Counties.

The company (managed by George Tyng, T.D. Hobart, C.P. Buckler, and M.K. Brown) surveyed the land, laid out farms and ranches, sank wells, built hundreds of miles of wire fence, and aided civic projects. During the disastrous drouth of 1910, it made available to local farmers $100,000 in loans to by wheat seed.

Upon the discovery of oil on White Deer land in 1921, the firm made vast gains by retaining half of the mineral rights on remaining land sold. It was liquidated in 1957. This building has also housed a Masonic Lodge, post office, medical and dental offices, and has accommodated religious services.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First National Bank in Pampa

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
Founded in 1906, this institution was organized under a state charter and was named First State Bank. It became known as First National Bank after it received a national charter in 1907. B.E. Finley served at the bank's president for many years, leading the institution from the turn of the century until his death in 1934. Beginning with an initial capital of $10,000, the bank has grown steadily and soundly over the years. Occupying the same corner location since its founding, it continues to be an important part of the Pampa community.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vittorio Emanuel von Brunow, M. D.

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
Born in North Carolina, Vittorio von Brunow moved to east Prussia with his family in 1864 and as a young man was educated in Vienna and Warsaw. He returned to the United States in 1892 to pursue his interests in research and technology, arriving in Texas in 1900 and in Pampa three years later. Von Brunow erected a frame house on this site from which he operated a drugstore and post and telephone offices in addition to his medical practice. As the area's first doctor, he often traveled many miles over dirt roads to care for his patients. Von Brunow also was active in community affairs and civic organizations for many years.

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1934 Pampa Post Office Building

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
A post office was established here in 1892, and in 1902 the town of Pampa was formally platted. Following the discovery of oil in the area in 1926, Pampa experienced a population boom which created a need for a larger post office. Built in 1933-34 by the Works Progress Administration, this structure exhibits Spanish Renaissance Revival architectural influences in its elongated rounded windows, tile roof, arcaded loggia, and decorative modillions and stone work.
Recorded Texas Historical Landmark – 1992

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First Methodist Church of Pampa

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
Five charter members established the First Methodist Church in 1906, the first denomination organized in Pampa. In 1908 a one-room white church with a steeple was built. This church site was purchased in 1924, and a new sanctuary was completed in 1928. Additional buildings and land were acquired as the congregation grew and renovations to the structures were made. The church provides many educational and worship activities for its members and supports the community with several outreach programs. The First Methodist Church has served the area for more than 90 years.

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Gray County Courthouse

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
A fine example of a Beaux Arts courthouse with Georgian ornamentation, this structure was erected after the county seat was moved from Lefors in 1928. The edifice was designed by W. R. Kaufman & Son of Amarillo and built by Harland L. Case & Co. of Pampa. It was dedicated on April 19, 1930. Built upon a foundation of Indiana limestone, the steel frame and many windows give a modern look to the traditional Beaux Arts style. Kaufman designed Pampa's city hall and fire station in a similar style.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1997

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Combs-Worley Building

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
Designed by Amarillo architects W.R. Kaufman & Son, this structure was erected in 1931 to house the offices of the Combs-Worley ranching and oil interests and Pampa professions and businesses. Modern art deco architectural influences appear on the edifice in typical classical rhythm and form. Metal casement windows and storefront details further enhance the building's expression of the 1930s and the new wealth of the oil boom era. The Kaufman's other Pampa projects include the county courthouse (1929), city hall and central fire station (both 1930). All are part of Pampa's “million dollar row.”
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1998

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Pampa

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
In 1888 a telegraph station on the Southern Kansas Railroad developed here, and was named Glasgow. Renamed Sutton a year later, a post office was established in 1892 and the town was named Pampa by George Tyng (d. 1906), manager of the White Deer Land Company. Surveyor A. H. Doucette (1884-1964) laid out the town in 1902. The first school opened in 1903 and the first church was organized in 1906. J. N. Duncan (1858-1941) became Pampa's first mayor in 1912. Following a 1920s oil boom, the county seat was moved here from Lefors in 1928.
Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pampa City Hall

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Texas, Gray County, Pampa
Construction of this and other major downtown buildings in Pampa came as a result of the Texas Panhandle Oil Boom of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Designed by architect William R. Kaufman to complement the Gray County Courthouse, which he also designed, the City Hall was completed in December 1930. The Beaux Arts style building features triumphal arch entrances with classical detailing and pilaster elements around the perimeter.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1987

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Last Great Panhandle Cattle Drive to Montana

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Texas, Carson County, near White Deer
Each Spring and Summer after 1880, many Texas herds went up the trail to Northern states for fattening. For the cowboys, trail drives meant hard work. They had to turn stampedes, ford rivers and quicksand streams, and fight Indians and cattle thieves. They endured hunger, thirst, and other physical hardships.

The Last Great Texas Panhandle Drive was organized here at N Bar N (N-N) Headquarters. Ranch manager was J.L. Harrison; trail boss T.L. (Tom) Coffee. 100 cowboys drove 10 herds, each with 2500 cattle, or a total of 25,000 beeves, to Montana from April to September 1892. The cattle belonged to Niedringhaus Brothers, German tinsmiths of St. Louis, who put into ranching a fortune made in enamel granite household wares.

From 1882 to 1886, N Bar N leased range in Carson and neighboring counties from the Francklyn Land & Cattle Company, a British syndicate backed by Cunard Steamship Line. Afterward this range belonged to White Deer Land Company. The N Bar N outfit left here because White Deer Land Company wanted the range cleared of large herds. By 1907 the 650,000 acres of its land was offered for sale to small ranchers and farmers. It was fenced and the steam plow introduced to turn the rich, grassy sod.

(Agriculture • Animals) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jackson General Store

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Texas, Carson County, White Deer
This commercial structure was built at the original townsite of White Deer (0.5 mi. E). It was moved here in 1908, when the present townsite was established. It housed the general merchandise business of J. C. Jackson (d. 1966), a prominent leader in the development of White Deer. In his career as a public servant, Jackson was mayor, postmaster, county judge (1935-41), and precinct commissioner (1947-66). In addition, he and his wife Dolly (d. 1957) were founders of the First Presbyterian Church. The Jacksons maintained their home in the general store building for many years.
Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

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White Deer

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Texas, Carson County, White Deer
Name taken from nearby creek so called by an Indian legend of White Deer feeding there.

Site of county's first water well, drilled at N Bar N Ranch, 1887. Also headquarters for White Deer Land Co. (formerly Francklyn Land and Cattle Co., a British syndicate with 630,000 acres of Panhandle land), which in 1902 sold its acreage for small farms and ranches.

Located .5 mile east on railroad in 1906, it became supply town for settlers. Present townsite founded in 1908. Oil boom came in 1920's. Is shipping point for grain and cattle.

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Hotel at White Deer

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Texas, Carson County, White Deer
The White Deer Land Company, a trustee for court-ordered land sales in this area, established the White Deer Demonstration Farm in the 1890s. About 1909 this frame four square structure was built to board prospective land buyers. Marvin Hughes bought the building in 1913 and it became a hotel. Subsequent owners included the Goodner family in 1929, and E. L. Colgrove in 1944. The structure has served as a boardinghouse, apartments, and a private residence.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1994

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First Presbyterian Church

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Texas, Carson County, White Deer
First church building in White Deer. Dedicated July 4, 1909. Financed mainly through gifts from pioneer members' home churches; and donations by other denominations. Also used by Methodists and Baptists for 11 years, with circuit pastors for the three congregations rotating their Sunday visits. A Union Sunday School and missionary society were organized. All offerings were equally shared among the three churches.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1965
(lower plaque)
The First Presbyterian Church building served as a worship center from 1909 to 1969. The structure was moved from this site in 1978. (1979)

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Terminus of the Santa Fe Railroad

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Texas, Carson County, Panhandle
Originally “Carson City”, town name was changed 1887 when this site appeared to be the future metropolis of the Panhandle: it was to be at the junction of Santa Fe (under name “Southern Kansas”) and Fort Worth & Denver City Railroads.

Plans changed, however, and the F.W.&D.C. took a route 16 mi. south, bypassing Panhandle. (Amarillo was soon founded on the F.W.&D.C.)

Even so, Panhandle became a major shipping center. During great ranching era and again in 1926 oil boom, it moved more freight than any other town on Santa Fe line except Chicago.

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Weaver College

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North Carolina, Buncombe County, Weaverville
Founded as Weaverville
College, 1873; Methodist,
coeducational. In 1934
merged with Rutherford
to form Brevard College.
Campus was one block W.

(Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Walker's Division

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Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga
C.S.A.
Left of
Walker's Division,

Nov. 24 - 25, 1863.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cheatham's Division

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Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga
C.S.A.
Right of
Cheatham's Division,

Nov. 25, 1863.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Friendship Methodist Church

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South Carolina, Berkeley County, near Cross
(Front text)
This church, one of the oldest Methodist organizations in Berkeley County, was formally organized about 1825. Circuit riders had preached in the area for more than forty years, and services held under a brush arbor here inspired participants to form a congregation and build their first church, a pole building.
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By 1843 the church built a large frame sanctuary, later remodeled in 1914-16. During Reconstruction its black members left to form their own congregations, among them Jerusalem Methodist Church. The present brick sanctuary, its construction delayed by the Santee Cooper project, was built in 1938 and dedicated in 1939.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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