-
First city in the United States to have a
totally wireless telephone system by GTE in (1991)
(after about two years we reverted back to
wire)
-
Home town of Jimmy Ross - President Lions Club International 2006
- 2007
For the
official Jimmy Ross/Quitaque Pin visit
The
Quitaque Lions Club
-
Voted "One of the Ten Hardest
Working Communities in Texas in 2005 and again in 2006 by
Texas Department of Agriculture
-
A favorite place for astronomers'
with their telescopes, because of our dark starry nights
visit
dark starry nights
-
Do we have more Nick Names per
capita than any other city in Texas (check
out our list at the feed store)
-
Quitaque (kit-ta-kway) is one of
the most mispronounced cities in the USA
-
The walls of our city park and
cemetery were built by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) 1938 - 1940
-
Home of not one but two Texas State
Parks
-
Part of the old Ozark Trail.
Our monument, buried in the street in the thirty's, will soon
be dug up
-
Home of the official Texas State
Bison herd of which Ted Turner recently donated 3 Bison Bulls
-
The area was Indian country to the
Comanche's, Plain Apaches, Cheyenne and Kwahadi
-
One of the many hunting areas of
Quanah Parker, the last major chief of the Comanche Indians
-
The area of Camp Resolution and
"The Valley of Tears"
-
Just ten miles west of Turkey, Tx.
home of Bob Wills "The King of Country Western Swing"
-
Caprock Canyons State Park was
voted BEST STATE PARK in 2004 by readers of Texas Co-op Power magazine
-
"Walking for the Cure" (of cancer)
is a big deal for Briscoe County and the surrounding towns of Silverton, Turkey,
Flomot and Quitaque. Since 1999 we have been in the top 5 counties in
Texas in donations per capitia and once we were 3rd in the nation at $10.88 per
person in the county. This year (2008) we have raised over $16,000 with
our new program of "Cooking for the Cure" where we get together for a meal,
silent auction and games.
