​Finch-Lord-Nelson and the
​ Founding of Panhandle City

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Marker Text: ​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. (1968)

Marker No: 1595

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 35.349522, -101.381493

Location: ​501 Elsie Street, Panhandle