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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZBR_texas-agricultural-experiment-station_Chillicothe-TX.html
Forage crop field station at which in 1909 (when situated 6 mi. NE) was planted the United States' first sudan grass, a sorghum especially adaptable to semiarid regions. The United States Department of Agriculture had brought the seed from Khartum…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZBQ_chillicothe-first-methodist-church_Chillicothe-TX.html
Originally organized in 1886 in the Jackson Springs community, this church was first served by circuit riders C. T. Neese and J. T. Hosmer. Shortly after the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway came through Chillicothe in 1887, the Jackson Springs …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZBN_w-p-a-sanitation-project_Quanah-TX.html
In 1937 the State of Texas and Hardeman County worked with President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in an attempt to provide much-needed employment to indigent citizens and replace unsanitary privies with improved facilities. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZBE_old-mounds-cemetery_Quanah-TX.html
This cemetery served residents of the original site of the community of Medicine Mound in southeast Hardeman County. The settlement took its name from mounds that rise abruptly from the otherwise flat topography of the county; one mound contained …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZBB_hicks-cobb-general-merchandise-store_Quanah-TX.html
The townsite of Medicine Mound had long been a thriving village when brothers-in-law Lon L. Cobb and Ira Lee Hicks arrived in the area with their families in 1927 and opened a general merchandise store. The store sold such items as work clothes an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZAX_hardeman-county_Quanah-TX.html
Created February 1, 1858 Recreated August 21, 1876 Organized December 30, 1884 Named in honor of Bailey Hardeman, 1785-1836, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and Thomas Jones Hardeman, 1788-1854 member of the Texas Cong…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZAW_trinity-church-of-quanah_Quanah-TX.html
The Rt. Rev. Alexander C. Garrett (1832-1924), first missionary bishop of northern Texas, preached to local Episcopalians in a schoolroom when he first visited Quanah in 1887. The property for this church building was donated in 1890 by G. M. Dodg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZAV_first-presbyterian-church-of-quanah_Quanah-TX.html
This congregation was organized in 1892 at the home of Mrs. A. E. deGraffenried by the Rev. Jacobs and eight charter members. This Beaux Arts classical style church building, erected by Chillicothe contractor, R. Henry Stuckey in 1909, features st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZAU_medicine-mound-depot_Quanah-TX.html
Built by Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway as passenger and freight station, in area where Chief Quanah Parker's Comanches prayed and rolled in gypsum, believing it was healing dust. Later, Santa Fe Station. Site of holdups and shooting. Has bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UYE_medicine-mound-community-historical_Quanah-TX.html
Early inhabitants of this area were Comanche and Kiowa Indians whose campsites were situated around four dolomite hills called Medicine Mounds and known for their healing properties. In 1854, area land was deeded to a railway company. Anglo settle…
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