Shamrock (Texas)

Wheeler County

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Shamrock is a small town in the Texas Panhandle called the northernmost part of the U.S. state of Texas. It is located on the former Route 66 and was in the wedding " Mother Road " was the first major port of call, if you came from the east to Texas. Shamrock is located 110 miles (180 km) east of Amarillo, 188 miles ( 303 km ) west of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and 291 miles ( 468 km ) northwest of Dallas.

History

Shamrock war im späten 19. Jahrhundert die größte Stadt im Wheeler County. Der Name geht auf einen irischen Einwanderer zurück, der unter dem Namen des irischen Kleeblattes (Shamrock) hier eine Poststation einrichten wollte, was aber nie realisiert wurde.

In 1902, the city received a railroad connection. First, the railway company called the Wheeler Station to the region name, but the name was changed a year later in 1903, in Shamrock to.

In 1938, we started to think the Irish Wuzeln the location and celebrated the first St. Patrick 's Day. Only interrupted by the years of World War II, Shamrock commits each year in mid- March of this Irish holiday as a one day city festival. Shamrock advertises the place had the best celebration of St. Patrick 's Day throughout Texas.

Since 1926 is promoted around shamrock oil and gas. Its highest population was at Shamrock in 1930, when 3,778 people lived in the city.

Shamrock today

A tourist attraction is the built in 1936 in Art Deco Style "U Drop Inn ", a Conoco gas station and café. Often it is also called Tower Station or Tower Café. By bypassing the city during the construction of Interstate 40 lost much of the route 66 their significance for the city, since the through traffic declined dramatically. In the 1990s, introduced the "U Drop Inn " operating. In 1997 the building was as a National Historic Landmark listed building and carefully restored. Today, it serves as a museum.

In the former Reynolds Hotel Pioneer West Museum is housed. It is dedicated to the history of the region, from the Native Americans of the plains to Alan Bean, one of the astronauts of the Apollo 12 mission, which dates from the Wheeler County.

The fictional Ramone's Body Shop in the Oscar-nominated Pixar animated film Cars by John Lasseter (2006) is based on the U -Drop Inn in Shamrock.

Main street of Shamrock

The Pioneer West Museum in Shamrock

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