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Wichita Falls.(North Texas & the Panhandle)
- Article from:
- Texas Adventure Guide
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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* History
If you're going to have "falls" in your name, you'd better have some falls. That's what city planners concluded before constructing 54 feet of waterfalls that cascade down three tiers. The original falls--all of five feet high--had disappeared almost a century ago because of flooding and the damming of the Wichita River.
Certificates for the land that Wichita Falls occupies sat in John C. Scott's trunk for nearly two decades before seeing the light of day. Scott had apparently won the land titles in an 1837 New Orleans poker game and didn't see much use for them. His family did, though, especially when they heard that the railroad would be ...