Welcome To
The White Deer Land Museum

Welcome To The White Deer Land MuseumWelcome To The White Deer Land MuseumWelcome To The White Deer Land Museum

Welcome To
The White Deer Land Museum

Welcome To The White Deer Land MuseumWelcome To The White Deer Land MuseumWelcome To The White Deer Land Museum
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Resources

As the goal of the White Deer Land Museum is the preservation and spread of the history of Gray County, Pampa, and the Panhandle, here are a few resources to guide you.

Research

Pampa City Directories

Explore the history of Gray County and Pampa by taking a stroll through the past in the form of informative city directories. 

John Mead's Local Historical Compilations

Dive deeper into the town we call home by investigating the facts of the past and learn how Pampa has developed into the town it is today. 

Eloise Lane Articles

  

Eloise Lane is the foremost keeper of Gray County history. She is a retired Pampa school teacher who has written a monthly column for the Pampa News for 10 years. She calls it "Museum Mementos" and each story is kept in the archives of the White Deer Land Museum.

Eloise' Grandfather came to Texas before the turn of the century with the railroad, and later became Pampa's first postmaster. The town then had 24 residents. Her father came here when Pampa was called Glasgow.

Eloise graduated from Pampa High School in 1932 and received a Bachelor of Music degree from Mary Hardin-Baylor University in Belton. Her first teaching job was in McLean, Texas. She taught there and one or two small schools before coming back to Pampa to teach in 1944. Eloise retired after a 41 year teaching career in 1980.

Eloise was asked to write a pamphlet about Pampa's first post office, and that began her writing hobby and close relationship with the White Deer Land Museum. She is the person called on in Gray County to answer all historical questions. She answers research mail for the museum and area residents. Eloise works tirelessly each month compiling documents and retrieving information to add to the accuracy of the county's history.

Have a Pampa history question? Ask Eloise Lane.

Article Index (docx)

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4 White Deer Lands Organized in 1886 (docx)

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111 Pampa (docx)

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116 PHS Class of 1912 (docx)

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108 Pampa incorporated 1912 (docx)

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101 GEORGE TYNG (docx)

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97 Charles Cook (docx)

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61 White Deer Lands advertised with booklets and exhibit building (docx)

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105 Indian Jim (docx)

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16 Pampa 1892to1902 (docx)

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17 Pampa Laid Out in 1902 (docx)

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42 T D Hobart (docx)

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43 M K Brown (docx)

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53 C P Buckler (docx)

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21 Gray County 1st Courthouse (docx)

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Lovett Memorial Library

111 N. Houston St. Pampa, Texas

Lovett Memorial Library's goal is to provide educational, cultural, and recreational resources to the city of Pampa through different mediums and opportunities. 

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