Clyde & Grace Warwick

The historical society the Warwicks helped found was organized at Canyon in February 1921 by college president Joseph A. Hill, history chairman Lester F. Sheffy, Hattie M. Anderson and thirty-six other faculty members and students. Its purpose was to collect and preserve the records and relics of Panhandle and High Plains life. In 1928 it began the annual Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, with J. Evetts Haley as editor, and the next year it launched the campaign for a museum building, which opened on the college campus on April 14, 1933.

What the plaque says

Clyde & Grace Warwick Iowa natives Grace Winkleman (1890-1973) and Clyde Warwick (1885-1957) came to Canyon City in 1908 and 1910, respectively, marrying in 1911. Clyde was editor of The Canyon News for 45 years, receiving state and national awards. He was also a State Representative and school board member, helped form the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, and was president of the Panhandle Press Association. Grace was in the first graduating class of West Texas Normal College, Superintendent of Dimmitt Schools, and charter member of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society. She wrote many columns and articles for the News, and her book The Randall County Story (1969) remains a seminal work in local history. 175 years of Texas Independence * 1836-2011

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum — 0.7 mi
  The Panhandle's great collection, some two million objects behind a 1933 Art Deco hall carved with cattle brands, closed to the public since March 2025 over fire-safety violations.
• Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
  A 1938 Depression-era lake on Tierra Blanca Creek that has gone dry, now 7,664 acres of shortgrass, cottonwood canyon and a prairie dog town on the High Plains south of Umbarger.
• Palo Duro Canyon State Park — 13 mi
  The upper end of the canyon the state bought in 1933, where CCC crews built the road to the floor and the army burned the winter camps of the Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne in 1874.
• TEXAS Outdoor Musical — 14 mi
  A summer pageant of Panhandle settler life staged since 1966 in the Pioneer Amphitheater, built into a basin of Palo Duro Canyon below a 600-foot cliff.

More markers nearby

• The Canyon News — steps away
• Smith Building (Palace Hotel) — steps away
• Randall County — steps away
• The Sad Monkey Railroad — steps away