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Downtown
Wheeler in the 1940s
Photo courtesy Regina Barker |
The
Wheeler County Courthouse - next page
Area Attractions Mobeetie
Jail Museum -
In the restored jail in Mobeetie,
11 miles west on Hwy 152Route
66 in Texas - The towns found along Texas 66 and their museums, ghost towns,
relics, markers and monuments.
Wheeler History -
"Both
the town and the county were named after Royal T. Wheeler. The vicinity was first
settled by ranchers as early as 1881, and by 1886 five families lived there. The
town had its real beginning in 1904 through the enterprise of two ranchers, Robert
B. Rogers and J. E. Stanley, who surveyed the land, built their homes on the site,
and began the movement to choose a centrally located county seat in preference
to Mobeetie.
..." From Handbook of Texas Online:
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/hjw7.html
Wheeler
Chamber of Commerce
101 W. Oklahoma Ave Wheeler, Tx. 79096
806-826-3408
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"The
1929 Wheeler County jail and sheriff's office in Wheeler is still in use today."
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Terry
Jeanson, September, 2007 photo | |
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