by Georgetta Stanford | Jul 7, 2023 | Clay County News
Jack Webb became a Clay County Deputy in 1963 at the age of 22. He tells Judge Campbell the story of a jailbreak from the Clay County...
by admin | Aug 19, 2020 | Clay County News
Railroads in Henrietta The Fort Worth & Denver City The Gainesville, Henrietta and Western The Missouri – Kansas – Texas (Katy) The Wichita Falls Railway The Southwestern The Fort Worth & Denver City Railroad arrived in Henrietta in 1882. The Gainesville,...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Clay County News
In 1901, James William Lochridge owned a farm southeast of the current location of Petrolia, Texas. About this time there was a drought and remembering that his home place in Georgia had water wells, decided to drill one here. Enlisting the help of a local man with a...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Clay County News
The map shown below, is on the inside cover of Katherine Douthett’s book “Romance and Dim Trails”, and was given her by Mrs. St. Andrew Myers. This map locates Fort Burnham at the mouth of the Little Wichita River in northeastern Clay County. An old manuscript written...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Clay County News
The St. Elmo Hotel was built in 1892, a 3 story brick building on the corner of Bridge and Omega streets, by Colonel Pete Snearly and his wife Catherine McCuen Snearly. Catherine’s mother Margaret, had run the City Hotel, a wooden structure that the Snearlys moved to...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Clay County News
Clay County was first organized in 1857 from Cooke County, and later abandoned because of Indian raids. It was reorganized in 1873. First taxes; .05 cents per $1000 on real & personal property for roads and bridges; .10 cents per thousand to build the courthouse...
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