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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J4U_texas-pacific-railway-depot_Baird-TX.html
The Texas & Pacific Railway arrived here in 1880, platting a town near the work camp of Matthew Baird, surveyor and engineer. In 1881, the T&P built a roundhouse and immigrant house, and moved a depot building to this new railroad division point. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J40_the-bankhead-highway_Baird-TX.html
The Bankhead National Highway, from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, California, was the nation's first all-weather, coast-to-coast highway. The southern road skirted the western mountains and was largely free from ice and snow, so it could be used …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J3Z_first-presbyterian-church-of-baird_Baird-TX.html
Organized June 26, 1885, by six members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, under the Rev. F.E. Leach. Town of Baird was then five years old.
     In 1906, the Cumberland and "Northern" branches of the church were united.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J3Y_first-baptist-church-of-baird_Baird-TX.html
Organized in 1881 with nine charter members, this was the first Baptist church founded in the new town of Baird. Elder G.P. Johnson led worship services until the Rev. L.S. Knight was called as the first full-time pastor. After meeting in the town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J2V_clyde-first-methodist-church_Clyde-TX.html
Organized in 1884, the Methodist congregation at Clyde met in private homes until their first church building was erected on this site in 1904. The white frame structure was replaced in 1936 by this sanctuary, built of stone donated by church memb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J2U_community-of-clyde_Clyde-TX.html
Settlers began moving to this area when the Texas and Pacific Railroad completed its line in December 1880. Many located near the commissary of railroad crew foreman Robert Clyde, for whom the town is named. A post office was established in 1881. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J2T_the-prew-house_Clyde-TX.html
Typically Victorian in style. Built in 1906 by Frank X. Prew, who emigrated from Wisconsin in 1889, desiring to live in a young country. He began a small farm and worked on railroad.
     Structure is mainly pine. The oak wainscoting downsta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IKN_site-of-cottonwood-springs_Cross-Plains-TX.html
After Indians on High Plains were subdued (1874) by Gen. R.S. MacKenzie, settlers started to pour into this area, where they found abundant game, water, and good soil for ranching, farming. Cottonwood Springs, at head of Green Briar Creek, was one…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IKM_old-cottonwood-cemetery_Cross-Plains-TX.html
For his military service with the Republic of Texas, George Washington Glasscock, Sr. (1810-68) received a land grant incorporating the future settlement of Cottonwood. His will conveyed this land to his daughter, Sarah Jane Glasscock Hall, whose …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IKL_cottonwood-bank-and-post-office_Cross-Plains-TX.html
W.F. Griffin opened a bank about 1911 in this small frame building. With Griffin as a director, Paul Ramsey served as the first president. His duties included teller, cashier, loan officer and custodian. When the railroad bypassed Cottonwood, merc…