In Panhandle, Texas, the Carson County Square House Museum grew from a late eighteen-eighties white frame house, the city's oldest residence, originally built for a Southern Kansas Railway representative with lumber shipped from Kansas. After several owners, it became future sheriff Oscar L. Thorp's home in nineteen twenty and remained a private residence until nineteen sixty-five, when it was moved and restored. Opened as a museum in nineteen sixty-seven, it expanded into a complex devoted to Texas Panhandle history, with more than ten thousand artifacts, local Indigenous art, and structures including a caboose, windmill, barn, and dugout shelter. It holds state and national historic recognition and since nineteen ninety-nine has sponsored a children's Line Camp program.