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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z46_floydada-lodge-no-712-a-f-a-m_Floydada-TX.html
Organized by eighteen charter members in April 1891, this Masonic Lodge was chartered by the Grand Lodge of Texas on December 11th that year. Formed just one year after the town of Floyd City (later renamed Floydada) became Floyd County seat, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z44_floydada-chapter-no-31-order-of-the-eastern-star_Floydada-TX.html
The Floyd City Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.), was organized in early 1898 when members of the Floyd City Lodge No. 712, A. F. & A. M. and their families petitioned the Grand Chapter of Texas O.E.S. for a charter. Mrs. Ella B. Starks …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z33_first-methodist-church-of-lockney_Lockney-TX.html
This church traces its history to 1890, when The Rev. R. M. Morris led about twenty-five Methodists in organizing a new congregation. The church members met for worship in the local schoolhouse and under arbors until a frame sanctuary was complete…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z32_the-j-a-baker-store_Lockney-TX.html
Opened 1894; one of the Texas South Plains' oldest mercantile houses still owned by founding family. James Artemas Baker (1859-1917), founder of this store and town of Lockney, was born near Dallas and lived in Hamilton from 1879 to July 1890, whe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z31_john-ellison-burns_Lockney-TX.html
Trained as a blacksmith by his father in Alabama, John Ellison Burns (1853-1940) brought his hand-forged tools to Texas in 1874. He settled in the new town of Lockney in 1900 and opened a blacksmith shop. As his business expanded he hired his thre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z30_della-plain_Floydada-TX.html
A severe drought in the mid-1880s brought Baylor County rancher T. J. Braidfoot to this area in search of better conditions for his cattle. In 1887, with the support of J. R. McLain of Seymour, he founded the settlement of Della Plain at this site…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z2Z_commercial-hotel_Floydada-TX.html
Alabama native William P. Daily (1865-1941) and his family arrived in Floyd County in 1911, settling briefly in the Muncy community (5 mi. N). After moving to Floydada to open a feed, coal, and wagon yard, Daily recognized the need for a hotel her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z20_first-baptist-church-of-lockney_Lockney-TX.html
Led by The Rev. I. B. Kimbrough, nineteen charter members organized the First Missionary Baptist Church of Floyd County in December 1890. Early worship services were held in R. M. Irick's dugout home and the Irick schoolhouse southwest of Lockney.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGSO_coronado-in-blanco-canyon_Floydada-TX.html
From 1540 to 1542, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado led the first organized European exploration of the southwest in search of the fabled "cities of gold." With a company of more than a thousand men and women and thousands of horses and mules, cattle…