Charles Goodnight - Namesakes

Namesakes

The following are named after Goodnight:

  • Charles Goodnight Memorial Trail
  • Former town of Goodnight (now a ghost town) in Armstrong County, site of the former Goodnight Baptist College, and birthplace in 1920 of the scientist Cullen M. Crain
  • Several streets in the Texas Panhandle
  • The highway to Palo Duro Canyon State Park
  • The annual Goodnight Award recognizes an individual or business for sharing Goodnight's love of the land and for protecting the Western heritage of Texas
  • The annual Charles Goodnight Chuckwagon Cookoff held in September in Clarendon is the principal fundraiser for the Saints' Roost Museum, which includes a Goodnight exhibit
  • Goodnight Elementary School, Pueblo Colorado
  • A street named after him in Pueblo, Colorado

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