Historical Marker Search

You searched for City|State|Country: , tx us

Showing results 1 to 8 of 8
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CU1_hobbs-independent-school-district_Hermleigh-TX.html
Hobbs Independent School District. . The first school in what would become the Hobbs community was known as Buffalo and taught in a tent on Buffalo Creek from 1887 to 1888. The Rev. Robert Martin erected a church and schoolhouse on the site with f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CTY_hobbs-cemetery_Rotan-TX.html
Hobbs Cemetery. . Settlers began moving into this area of Fisher County in the early 1880s. The community that developed became known as Hobbs when Roby postmaster Vachel Hobbs Anderson suggested his middle name for the new post office here. In th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CTO_organization-of-fisher-county_Roby-TX.html
Organization of Fisher County. . When the Texas Legislature created Fisher County in 1876, there were no permanent settlements in the area. As a result, the county was linked with Shackelford and Nolan Counties for judicial purposes. By 1885, enou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CTN_fisher-county_Roby-TX.html
Fisher County. . Site of old Indian trail from Mexico to settlements on Texas frontier. In this region in 1856, Colonel Robert E. Lee, then commanding the famed U.S. Second Cavalry (and later General-in-Chief of the Confederate Army), campaigned a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SJY_site-of-hitson-community_Hamlin-TX.html
Ranchers John and William Hittson were among the first to settle in this area in about 1870; the area around their homes became known as Hittson or Hitson. Fisher County was created in 1876, and settlement began to increase. A post office opened i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JDH_newman-community-and-cemetery_Sylvester-TX.html
Jim Newman, one of Fisher County's earliest settlers, established a ranch in this area about 1879. The community that developed near his ranch was named Newman when the county's first post office opened here in 1881. The town consisted of the old …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JDG_woods-chapel-cemetery_McCaulley-TX.html
Settlement of this area of Fisher County began in the early 1880s. A small frame building, erected near this site in 1883-1884, was used as a school and church. A cemetery was established and was in use by 1884. The church was named in honor of it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JDA_adair-steadman-site_Sylvester-TX.html
In this vicinity is a prehistoric archeological site discovered in 1969 near the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. Archeologists have conducted extensive scientific excavations and attribute most of the cultural materials to the Paleo-Indian Period.…
PAGE 1 OF 1