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unusual facts about Hemphill County



Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway

In 1931, the Panhandle and Santa Fe leased two separate companies: the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad Company and the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, which together serviced the track from Clinton, Oklahoma, west to Hemphill County, Texas, and southwest to Pampa, located northeast of the headquarters city of Amarillo in Gray County, Texas.

Wayland Baptist University

The Malouf Abraham Family Arts Center on the Wayland campus was endowed by the family of the late State Representative Malouf Abraham, Sr., and his son, Malouf Abraham, Jr., a retired allergist and active art collector from Canadian, the seat of Hemphill County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle.


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