Historical Marker

Follett

Historical marker location:
E. Ihanhoe St., Follett, Texas
( on E. Ivanhoe (SH 15), across from Methodist Church, Follett)
Marker installed: 1967

A gateway to Texas Panhandle's "Golden Spread". Founded as "Ivanhoe", on a site across state line, in Oklahoma. Town moved twice to locate on a railroad. Situated here in 1917, and renamed for Horace Follett, railroad surveyor.

Economy based on wheat, cattle, grain sorghums and (since 1950's) oil and gas production.

(1967).