Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City

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.

Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City is a historical marker in Panhandle, Carson County, dedicated in 1968. It is one of 42 historical markers documented in Carson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 49 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 35.3463, -101.3801 near Panhandle. The nearest cataloged historic site is Last Great Panhandle Cattle Drive to Montana (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Old County Bookmobile, Pioneer Dugout, and Texas Panhandle Pioneers - The Simms Brothers.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5065001595. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.