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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I44_hittson-ranch-headquarters-on-battle-creek_Cisco-TX.html
Nearby Battle Creek was given its name in 1840 by a small band of men who had traveled to this area in search of hostile Indians. A fight took place near the creek when a raiding party attacked the group. Approximately twenty years later, cattlema…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I43_military-telegraph-line_Baird-TX.html
The United States Military Telegraph Line Established in 1874-1875 from Fort Griffin to Fort Concho, crossed here
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I42_callahan-county-airport_Baird-TX.html
Shortly after WWII, the first official Callahan County airport opened. Baird businessmen Ralph Ashlock and Earl Johnson leased this land from William H. Hardy where two decades earlier Mr. Hardy operated a county poor farm. With help from local we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYN_site-of-belle-plaine-college_Baird-TX.html
Early college of west Texas. Founded in 1881 by Methodist Church. Enrollment reached peak of 300 and students attended from throughout the region. College developed a superior course of study with special strength in music. It had an orchestra …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYM_site-of-john-d-merchant-home_Baird-TX.html
This building was the early home of the Merchant family, who later moved to Abilene. Clabe Merchant, twin-brother of John Merchant, becoming the founder of Abilene and naming it after the town in Kansas, at the end of the cattle trail at that time…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYL_belle-plain_Baird-TX.html
First official county seat of Callahan County, 1877 - 1883. The first unofficial county seat was Callahan City where the commissioners court was organized, July 30, 1877, and several civil and probate cases filed. By an invalid election, October 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYG_belle-plaine-cemetery_Baird-TX.html
Residents of the short-lived community of Belle Plaine were burying their dead at this site as early as 1878. Although the presence of unmarked graves suggests earlier possible usage, the oldest marked grave, that of sixteen-year-old Virgil Hill, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYF_belle-plaine-cemetery_Baird-TX.html
Deed for cemetery dated Dec. 10, 1884. Texas and Pacific Railway Company conveyed through E.E. Solomon, County Judge. All of its right and title to citizens of Callahan County, nine acres, one and one half miles south of Belle Plaine for a cemeter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYE_william-jeff-maltby_Baird-TX.html
A native of Illinois, William Jeff Maltby gained fame as a frontiersman, veteran of the Mexican War and American Civil War and Texas Ranger. Maltby began his Texas exploits about 1850, building frontier forts for the U.S. Army. He retired to Calla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HWD_pioneer-physician-j-d-windham_Clyde-TX.html
Born in Alabama, moved to Texas 1839. Married Frances Monteith and had nine children. Was first doctor in Brown County, 1865; and in Callahan County, 1874; owned general store; planted county's first orchard here in Tecumseh.
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