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Shamrock
Attractions
Shamrock holds
a St. Patrick's Day celebration each year.
Pioneer West
Museum: In the old Reynolds Hotel 204 N. Madden Street
A fragment
of the famous Irish Blarney Stone is in Elmore Park.
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beautiful Tower Conoco station in Shamrock, Texas. This station was
used as the inspiration for “Ramone’s Body Shop” in the Disney/Pixar
movie 'Cars'”. - Noel
Kerns , January 2008 photo |
"The
other vintage filling station in Shamrock, this beautiful old Magnolia
station boasts 3 exquisitely preserved gravity feed gas pumps."
- Noel
Kerns , January 2008 photo
More Gas
Stations |
History
in a Pecan Shell
An immigrant shepherd applied for a post office in 1890, requesting
the name Shamrock for his post office/ dugout home. Settlement began
with the arrival of The Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway
in 1902. The town lost the name for a brief period when a new post
office was opened, but the railroad had named the stop Shamrock and
the old name went back into use. Maybe it was Irish luck.
The towns of Story and Benonine moved to Shamrock for the railroad
link - adding two more casualties to the long list of dissolved towns.
Shamrock was incorporated in 1911. The population had grown to 2,500
by 1925 and when oil was discovered in 1926, the population nearly
doubled by 1930. The Wheeler County Texan, once published at Story,
Texas evolved into the Shamrock Texan in 1928.
A second boom was experienced with the completion of "Route"
66 - but the town was bypassed by the improved Interstate 40.
Shamrock
Hotels
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A
parade in Shamrock
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Shamrock
street scene in the 1950s
Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Another
view of Shamrock, Texas
Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Shamrock
Texas Forum
Subject:
"Caravan Stop"
...I've published a new series titled "Caravan Stop" that features
the Shamrock, Texas, landmark of the Tower
Conoco Station. The station was recently restored to its original
1935 condition and I decided its Route 66 heritage would make a great
setting for my painting of all six generations of Corvettes. My wife
and I host a number of Corvette caravans and such caravans were the
inspiration for "Caravan Stop". Thanks. - Dana
Forrester, A.W.S., N.W.S., November 08, 2006 |
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