Amarillo History

Amarillo has seen its share of celebrity trials, however, there was one trial that took over an Amarillo courthouse that was bigger than Oprah and the Cattlemen.

Nowadays you'll find a coffee company and coffee shop on every corner. However, this is a recent development in the last twenty years.

Amarillo is a city with a rich history. In fact, you might now know just how rich history is until you start scrolling through an old newspaper.

Hawaiian evangelists, a small number of twentieth-century neo-pagan witches, bomb-sniffing dogs, police, and press all got together to party in Amarillo, Texas.

Amarillo has a ton of history we love to learn about and a lot of businesses that have stood the test of time. Some haven't.

Amarillo has a lot of history hiding in plain sight.

There have been five different Potter County Courthouses over the years.

Would you believe that the most notorious gangsters of the 20th century not only came through town, they gave a few citizens a run for their money--literally

The story made it all the way to the New York Times.

If you have driven behind the Civic Center at any time on Grant Street, you have seen the historic Santa Fe Depot. But, have you seen the inside of the Santa Fe Depot?

The school is named for an unsung hero of children.

I started in radio in the early nineties here in Amarillo. I remember hearing the whispers about a murder that happened at a radio station here in town. Over the years I would get bits and pieces of the story.