Channing, Texas
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Channing is a town in Hartley County, Texas, in the United States. It is the county seat of Hartley County. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 281.
XIT Ranch General Office in Channing
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XIT Ranch
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The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres of land, it ran for 200 miles along the border with New Mexico, varying in wid
Channing, Texas
…duplicated another community in Texas, the name was changed to Channing later that year. Channing developed directly from its association with the XIT Ranch, a property that once included land in as many as 10 counties in the Texas Panhandle. In 1891, Willis D. Twitchell platted Channing's business district…
Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891
XIT Ranch chuck wagon, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum
The General Office building was built in 1898–99 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.