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McLean is a town in Gray County, Texas. It is part of the Pampa, Texas Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 830 at the 2000 census. In 1901, Alfred Rowe, an English rancher who later died in the wreck of the Titanic, donated land near a railroad cattle loading stop for the establishment of a town site. The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad Company constructed a water well and a switch and section house there. The town was named for Judge William P. McLean (1836-1925) of the Texas Legislature and Railroad Commission. In 1927 the mother road route 66 arived in Mclean, during the Golden Age of Route 66, McLean boasted 16 service stations, six motels and numerous cafes. McLean is now headquarters of the Texas Historic Route 66 Association located in the Devil’s Rope Museum.