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It's a good time to buy in Amarillo. Home Appreciation is up Reviews for Amarillo 31 Reviews. In the spring of , when heavy rains almost flooded "Old Town," the railroad embankment prevented effective drainage and prompted more people to move to Sanborn's higher location. Despite a successful lawsuit filed against Sanborn by the Murphy-Thomason-Wisner interests over ownership of block 88, even the county and city officials eventually joined the cattlemen's project; by the town's nucleus was one mile east at the city's Glidden and Sanborn addition.
That year the First National Bank opened for business, and the three Wolfin brothers from Gainesville established a mercantile store. In Phillip H. Seewald moved from Tascosa and opened a jewelry store. The depot and courthouse remained at the old site, since the law decreed that they could not be moved until five years after the election.
In another county-seat election officially transferred the title to Sanborn's town, and the records were housed in a newer building there. By Amarillo had three newspapers: H. Rankin's Amarillo Northwest , and J. Caldwell's Amarillo Weekly News. Ellwood Park, the first of Amarillo's many city parks, was established in the s.
Three churches were constructed during the decade, and other denominations organized local congregations. From to Willis Day Twichell operated Amarillo College in a building donated by the Sanborn family; the public school met at the former old-town courthouse until late in , when a three-story red-brick school opened.
On February 18, , the citizens of Amarillo voted to incorporate and elected Warren W. Wetzel mayor. However, the inauguration of city government was restrained by injunctions, and municipal administration was carried on by county officials and Texas Rangers for a while.
The first annual Tri-State Fair was held in Amarillo in the fall of By Amarillo had emerged as one of the world's busiest cattle-shipping points. The population grew from in to 1, by Construction of the Southern Kansas, the Pecos and Northern Texas, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf railroads by added to the shipping facilities and helped to increase the population to 9, by The sudden influx of people with the railroads resulted in the rise of Amarillo's Bowery district, notorious for its saloons, brothels, and desperadoes; crime there was commonplace, but after prohibition was imposed in the Bowery faded away.
In the two-story St. Anthony's Hospital, the first hospital in the Panhandle, was erected; it served the entire area. Electrical service also came that year with the establishment of the Amarillo Light and Water Company, precursor to Southwestern Public Service. The Amarillo Independent School District was formed in , and by the following year a new stone courthouse and jail were completed, after a bitter court battle over ownership of the courthouse square.
The Grand Opera House opened in In a second hospital, Northwest Texas, was added. Mary's Academy, Amarillo's first Catholic school, opened in , the same year the Board of City Development was formed. Increasing production of wheat and small grains made Amarillo an elevator, milling, and feed-manufacturing center during the early s.
Prior to the railroad's extension into the South Plains area, cotton farmers often brought their produce to Amarillo for shipment. Industry and culture developed in Amarillo after World War I. Gas was discovered in and oil three years later. The Panhandle added a zinc smelter, oil refineries, and oil-shipping facilities. Robert H. Gray arrived at Amarillo on April 27, Lee Bivins , W. Fuqua, and others promoted the aviation industry, and in the Panhandle Air Service and Transportation Company was established; at one time Amarillo had five airfields, including the Municipal Airport.
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