Located at the exact geo-mathematical center of Route 66, the café is one of the oldest eateries on the highway.
Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark program as a site worth seeing — — Map (db m183503) HM
The above signs are replicas of originals that were installed in 1914 by the AAA clubs on the National Old Trails Road, today known as U.S. Route 66. — — Map (db m194959) HM
Along with law-abiding and God-fearing men and women were buried here, often without benefit of clergy, men who "died with their boots on". The name was borrowed from a cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas, while it was a resort of buffalo hunters and . . . — — Map (db m91783) HM
Founded in 1939 by Cal Farley, champion athlete and successful businessman. Boys Ranch was a natural result of Mr. Farley's years of working with underprivileged boys, and the outgrowth of Kids, Inc. and the Maverick Boys Club, two excellent youth . . . — — Map (db m91773) HM
Old Tascosa, cowboy capital of the plains, lay one-half mile northeast. In its brief span it became the center of the open-range world. Stomping ground for some of the West's most notorious bad men and focal point for cattle thieves and ranchmen. . . . — — Map (db m91776) HM
Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created August 21, 1876
Organized January 12, 1881
Named in honor of Williamson Simpson Oldham 1813-1868
Arkansas lawyer and jurist member of the Confederate Senate from Texas
County seat, . . . — — Map (db m91774) HM
1786-1874 Comanches met Comancheros at Atascosa Creek to feast, gamble, race horses & exchange trade goods.
Arrow sculptor: Charles A. Smith — — Map (db m167224) HM
Cowboy capital of the Texas Panhandle, 1877-1888. "Billy the Kid" and cowboys from many ranches added to its liveliness. Made famous by wild west fiction. Its name is a corruption of Atascoso (boggy) first given to nearby creek. County seat of . . . — — Map (db m91784) HM
Served 12 counties in Panhandle. Site of trials for killings that had filled Boothill Cemetery. Until 1915 Oldham County seat. Many years headquarters, Julian Bivins Ranch. Birthplace of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, 1939.
Recorded Texas . . . — — Map (db m91785) HM
Great early ranch well known to badman Billy the Kid and other famed western characters. The LS was founded in 1870's by former Indian territory trader W. M. D. Lee and New York financier Lucien Scott. Through Lee's efforts, the LS had water and . . . — — Map (db m91775) HM
Oldham County's first physician. A civic leader, weather researcher and humanitarian. Born in Kansas, he attended medical school in Missouri, and in 1907 moved to Vega with his wife, Lulu Mills Loyd.
Despite opposition from ranchers, he . . . — — Map (db m91756) HM
A collection dedicated to the Mother Road, the museum houses items from Vega Zero Lockers. Established in 1944 at the "crossroads of the nation" on Route 66.
Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark program as a site worth . . . — — Map (db m183506) HM
What came to be known as the Fort Smith - Santa Fe Trail was first blazed in 1840 by Josiah Gregg, a trader seeking a route to Santa Fe along the south side of the Canadian River. In 1849, Gregg's route was closely followed by a military escort led . . . — — Map (db m91758) HM
Comanches camped at playa lakes here traveling trail N to Tascosa & E/W to Tecovas Springs & Tucumcari
Arrow Sculptor: Charles A. Smith — — Map (db m155109) HM
Legislator, judge, newspaperman. Came to Texas from Arkansas. Member 1861 Texas Secession Convention. Chosen delegate to provisional Confederate Congress, Montgomery, Ala. Sent Arkansas to work for secession by Jefferson Davis 1861. Texas . . . — — Map (db m91755) HM
Contains one of the famous Boot Hill cemeteries of wild west days and was the gathering place for pleasure-seeking cowboys, gamblers and "bad men" of the Panhandle in the 1870s and '80s. Outlaws such as Billy the Kid and lawmen like Pat Garrett and . . . — — Map (db m91757) HM
The Mother Road of Route 66 ran north from I-40 on First Street then west on Main across Vega. A number of abandoned concrete bridges are the only readily visible signs of the old route across the Texas panhandle. — — Map (db m185111) HM
