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Home Texas Hardeman County Quanah Medicine Mound Depot, 1910
     

Medicine Mound Depot, 1910

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Quanah, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 34° 17' 9.18296000016", -99° 43' 20.03745"
 
    Texas State
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    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