Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Cyclone hits Mobeetie

Photo courtesy of the Texas State Historical Association
(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1898, the Panhandle community of Mobeetie was devastated by a cyclone.
The community, considered the "mother city" of the Panhandle, developed from Charles Rath and Bob Wright's supply store on Sweetwater Creek at a buffalo-hunters' camp called Hidetown in 1874, and grew to 150 residents the following summer as a trading post for nearby Fort Elliott. The village was located at the southern end of the Jones and Plummer Trail and was a center of activity for the buffalo-hide trade. Continued

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