Quanah, Acme and Pacific Depot Museum

The Quanah, Acme and Pacific began in 1902 as the Acme, Red River and Northern, a short line built to serve the Acme Plaster Company's gypsum works west of Quanah. By 1909 its owner, Sam Lazarus, saw farm country opening to the southwest and renamed the road for its ambitions: El Paso and a link to the Southern Pacific. It reached Paducah in 1910, the stock pens at MacBain below the Caprock in 1913 and Floydada in 1928, and no farther. From the late 1930s until 1973 its short track carried through freight between the Frisco and the Santa Fe, and when that traffic moved elsewhere the line faded; the company disappeared into the Burlington Northern in the early 1980s.

The depot in Quanah, a block west of Main Street, served as passenger station and railway offices. The Austin firm of Page Brothers, who designed the Texas Building at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and a run of county courthouses, gave it a Spanish Colonial Revival front, and it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The town itself, laid out by the Fort Worth and Denver City in 1884, was named for the Comanche leader Quanah Parker.

The Hardeman County Historical Society runs the depot as a museum of pioneer and railroad days, with artifacts connected to Quanah Parker, a veterans room, the Quanah Cotton Oil Mill and a model of the QA&P. The society also keeps the two-story county jail of 1890 on Green Street, its upper-floor cells left as they were.