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Medicine Mound Depot, 1910 |
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Quanah,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
34° 17' 9.18296000016",
-99° 43' 20.03745"
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Texas State Historical Marker |
Built by Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway as passenger and freight station, in area where Chief Quanah Parker's Comanches prayed and rolled in gypsum, believing it was healing dust. Later, Santa Fe Station. Site of holdups and shooting. Has bullet holes, but escaped a 1935 fire that burned entire town. Retired from use, 1959; was moved via Highway 287 to its present site. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Medicine Mound Depot, 1910 Historical Marker Location Map, Quanah, Texas
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