In 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Motley County resident Ron Bailey’s maternal grandfather, William Marlin Clifton, was operating a gasoline service or “filling” station in Whiteflat, Texas.
The old filling station was located on the east side of State Highway 70 where the present historical marker for Whiteflat is located.
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