Known as the “Gateway to the Panhandle” due to its location on the south side of the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River, Childress became the county seat with the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway in 1887. It differs from the customary morphology of Panhandle towns in that the business district is contained in the five blocks between the railroad and the parallel highway (U.S. 287, Avenue F). Childress’s two principal streets, N. Main and Commerce, pass under the railroad on the south.
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