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Location of Clarendon, Texas Location of Clarendon, Texas The grain elevator in Clarendon The streets of Clarendon Clarendon is a town/city in Donley County, Texas, United States.
The populace was 2,026 at the 2010 census. The governmental center of county of Donley County, Clarendon is positioned on U.S.
Highway 287 in the Texas Panhandle, 60 miles (97 km) east of Amarillo.
Before the rise of Amarillo, Clarendon, along with Mobeetie in Wheeler County, and Tascosa in Oldham County, was one of the three initial Panhandle settlements.
Established in 1878, Clarendon moved after it was bypassed by the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad. Clarendon acquired the sobriquet "Saints Roost" from small-town cowboys; hence the unusual name of the Clarendon exhibition, the Saints' Roost Museum. In 2001, John Earl Morrow (born around 1954), a Clarendon resident and owner of Morrow Drilling and Service, purchased the property from the Barnhills and in August 2002 reopened the drive-in.
Clarendon is positioned southwest of the center of Donley County at 34 56 11 N 100 53 28 W (34.936415, 100.891182). U.S.
Highway 287 passes through the city, dominant west 60 miles (97 km) to Amarillo and southeast 57 miles (92 km) to Childress.
Texas State Highway 70 leads north 17 miles (27 km) to Interstate 40 and south 42 miles (68 km) to Turkey.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), of which 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km2), or 3.49%, is veiled by water. Climate data for Clarendon, Texas (1981 2010) Clarendon is served by the Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District.
Clarendon is home to Clarendon College (established 1898), the earliest center of college studies in the Texas Panhandle.
The college is positioned off Highway 287 in north Clarendon.
The Saints' Roost Museum homes artifacts of the early years of Clarendon and features exhibits on Goodnight, Bugbee, the Red River War, and the Fort Worth and Denver Railway depot.
The small-town journal is the Clarendon Enterprise.
Clarendon has been the home of various notable persons.
Aviation historian Randy Acord (1919 2008), a Clarendon native, established the Alaska Air Pioneer Museum in Fairbanks, where he had been stationed as a test pilot in 1943.
JA Ranch matriarch Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair maintained a home in Clarendon and was a benefactor of many Donley County charities.
The Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon is the restoration of her former Adair Hospital.
She was active, too, in the Episcopal Church in Clarendon.
Ed Boykin, New Mexico state legislator and educator, was born in Clarendon.
Harold Dow Bugbee, artist of ranching on the Texas South Plains and the Panhandle, maintained his family near Clarendon.
The historian Harley True Burton, a former president of Clarendon College, served as the town mayor from 1955 1963.
Burton wrote The History of the JA Ranch, co-owned by John George Adair of Ireland and Charles Goodnight, who spent his later years in Clarendon.
Renowned buffalo hunter Frank Collinson (1855 1943) lived primarily in Childress, but is buried in Clarendon.
Clarendon is the hometown of former Oklahoma Sooners standout running back Kenny King.
Clarence Hailey Long, the inspiration for the initial Marlboro Man tobacco advertising campaign, lived his later years in Clarendon.
A former employee of the JA Ranch, he joined the First Baptist Church in Clarendon in 1953, after the death of his father in a bronco accident. He was born in Clarendon, and lived there until graduating from high school.
Odell Mc - Brayer (1930 2008), a Fort Worth attorney, interval up in Clarendon.
Blues musician William Daniel Mc - Falls, better known as Blues Boy Willie, lived in Clarendon amid the middle 1960s, when he studied guitar and upright bass at Clarendon College.
Montgomery Harrison Wadsworth Ritchie (1910 1999), grandson of Cornelia Adair, managed the JA from 1935 until his retirement in 1993 and hence maintained a Clarendon address.
Representative William Mac Thornberry, who represents the Texas Panhandle in a precinct which stretches from Amarillo east to Wichita Falls, was born in Clarendon in 1958.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Clarendon city, Texas".
Lester Fields Sheffy, The Life and Times of Timothy Dwight Hobart, 1855-1935: Colonization of West Texas (Canyon, Texas: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1950), p.
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