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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z23_halfway_Plainview-TX.html
Settlers came to this area seeking abundant grass, fertile soil, and water. This site, acquired by R. L. Hooper (1872-1952) and his wife Ada Mae (Hughley) (1880-1955) in the 1890s, received its name because it stood "halfway" between Olton and Pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z22_discovery-site-of-the-plainview-point_Plainview-TX.html
The first of this distinctive type of early man dart point was found by 15-year-old Val Keene Whitacre in 1941, in a caliche quarry on Running Water Draw. In 1944, quarry workers uncovered a fossil bone deposit, which was noted by scientists surve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z21_bellview-community-and-school_Plainview-TX.html
Much of this rural community's early social and religious history is closely associated with its schoolhouses. Area residents built their first schoolhouse in 1903, one year after organizing a rural school district. Named for trustee John Bell, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PUS_liberty-community-and-finney-switch_Plainview-TX.html
In 1887 Joseph B. Leach and his brothers, John and Dee, immigrated to this area from Liberty, Kentucky. Joseph filed on a 160-acre homestead and built a half-dugout and sod house and a windmill. The Leach brothers often hauled freight for Plainvie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PUH_hale-county_Plainview-TX.html
Formed from
Young and Bexar territories
created August 21, 1876
Organized August 13, 1888
Named in Honor of John C. Hale
a lieutenant who fell at San Jacinto
Plainview, County Seat
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PUB_snyder-community_Plainview-TX.html
Born in Illinois, Mennonite minister and farmer Peter B. Snyder (1864-1948) was living in Minnesota when a search for inexpensive land led him to Texas. In 1906, he bought property in Hale County from John H. Buntin and urged other Mennonites to j…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PTM_the-hackberry-groves_Plainview-TX.html
At this site in early days stood the South Plains' most significant trees— twin hackberry groves, on 1870s trail used by buffalo hunters, surveyors, law officers, and early settlers.
On public domain, the site was unappropriated until mid-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PTL_plainview-cemetery-and-memorial-park_Plainview-TX.html
Plainview Cemetery
and Memorial Park
Established c. 1909
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2011
Marker is property of the State of Texas
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PTK_emma-grigsby-meharg_Plainview-TX.html
Born in Lynnville, Tenn.; moved to Texas with parents, Jasper N. and Mary A. (Calvert) Grigsby, 1883. Graduated from college, became a teacher, married Samuel W. Meharg. Came to Plainview (1902), where she and husband were educators. She helped or…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PTJ_rawleigh-porteus-smyth_Plainview-TX.html
An Austin native and graduate of the Texas Military Institute, R.P. Smyth became a Brigadier General after Spanish American War duty. As a surveyor, he ran boundaries (1887) of the Two Buckle and other South Plains ranches and platted towns of Pla…