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Claudia Harris P.W.
Amarillo, Texas
District #16
yANHANDLE PIONEW
--41-t-e-'00e-v44:41111MMOr Mr. Delzell
Potter County Farm
Amarillo, Texas
Mr. Delzell brought a group of homeseekers to the Panhandle from ,airfax,
Iowa. The prospective settlers were college friends of Mr. Delzell and his wife
who, having heard of what a fine country the Panhandle was and how easy it was to
become rich there, left their former homes to make otherSemms on the last Texas
frontier.
Mr. Delzell called to mind several of the early buildings of Amarillo: the
first courthouse in the new *own at Fifth and Taylor, west of the present court-
house; and the first brick schoolhouse at the present location of the school plant
between Tyler and Polk and 12th and 13th streets. Mr. L. A. Wells, superintendent
of the public school of Amarillo about 1905 or 1906, put out the first tree in
Amarillo. That tree still stands diagonally across from the present high school
on Polk.
According to Mr. Delzell, Mr. H. A. Nobles started the street care in Amarillo.
One line went toward San Jacinto. men named Lynch ran one street ear line.
Mr. Delzell was present when the old Carson building, located at 4th and
Polk, burned down, although the local fire department fought to save the structure
from the flames.