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It was a time when guests actually signed their names in a register. The historic Hotel is gone, but the No Man’s Land Museum is fortunate to have a guest register for a portion of 1906. The property was purchased by Texas County and became a parking lot. in 1947, and the 22 June 1962 edition of the Guymon Daily Herald reported that the Hotel was to be sold on July 16. Willoughby, Fred Willoughby, and Daniel S. Of the approximately 90 men who signed up to join and pay $10.00, three Willoughby family signatures were listed: M. In the history of the Sunset Hills Golf Course by Shirley Porter in 1991, a nine hole course was begun in 1923 where the football stadium is now located. The Hotel and the family were a vital part of the community.įred Willoughby was on the Council when the first golf course was initated. 3 June 1915) and the Santa Fe Bus Station (2 December 1943, Panhandle News Herald). Over the years it served as a location for a chiropractor (The Guymon Herald. and Lillie operated the Hotel, but their son Fred later became the “hotel man”. It was located near the Rock Island Depot and served as a convenient stop for travelers. built the first brick hotel, the Willoughby Hotel. remembered seeing range cattle come to their place and drink at the town water trough across the street. The bulls were soon coming to the back yard to lick the salt. The Stonebreaker-Zea Ranch shipped two carloads of bulls to Guymon and turned them out two blocks from the boarding house.
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recounted that Lillie often made ice cream and emptied the salt water in the back yard. In an interview in 1957 for the Oklahoma Historical Society, also published in the 1990 edition, M. He and his wife, Lillie, subsequently turned their home into the Little Green Boarding House. He was working for the railroad at the time and often invited fellow workers to eat at his home. bought a lot at the corner of Fourth and Ellison and built a home there. He homesteaded on a quarter section two miles southeast of Guymon in 1901 and built a half dugout. After staying there a year, he drove his covered wagon to the area to become the Oklahoma Panhandle. While there, he outfitted a covered wagon and went to Greer County, Oklahoma Territory. Willoughby was born in Kentucky but traveled to Fort Worth in about 1900. The 1990 newspaper article mentioned that M. The No Man’s Land Museum in Goodwell pays tribute to the pioneer Willoughby family and the hotel. According to the 3 July, 1990 edition of the Guymon Daily Herald, the Willoughby Hotel was the first brick hotel built in Guymon. Today there are numerous motels in Guymon, but when the town was first settled over a hundred years ago, there were few accommodations for travelers. Researcher - Sue Weissinger Reporter - J. Tales from the No Man’s Land Museum - The Willoughby Hotel