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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RPJ_lt-col-william-e-dyess_Albany-TX.html
A graduate of Albany High School, William Edwin Dyess was an aviation and infantry commander in the Philippines during World War II. Captured at the Fall of Bataan in 1942, he survived the Death March and escaped his captors a year later. Back in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RHQ_family-forts-c-s-a_Albany-TX.html
(Front Side)
Few in numbers and with little protection from the military but refusing to abandon their country, certain families of courageous and determined people on the Texas frontier during the Civil War gathered together in hastily construct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RHO_fort-griffin-civil-jail_Throckmorton-TX.html
This structure was the jail used in the town of Fort Griffin near the United States Army post of Fort Griffin which defended the frontier from 1867 to 1881. During this period lawlessness was common in the town. Citizens built this thick-walled ja…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RHN_the-western-cattle-trail-crossings-at-fort-griffin_Throckmorton-TX.html
Cattle have been important to Texas' economy since early Spanish mission days. Before and after the Civil War, routes developed for driving herds through Texas to sell in Missouri and Kansas. The best known was the Eastern, or Chisholm Trail, but …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RHM_frontier-town-of-fort-griffin_Throckmorton-TX.html
In the 19th century, the U.S. government established forts along Texas' frontier to protect pioneers. By the early 1850s, Col. Jesse Stem farmed along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, and Thomas Lambshead established his Clear Fork farm. As oth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBK_matthews-memorial-presbyterian-church_Albany-TX.html
(Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No. 3257)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LWZ_shackelford-county-courthouse_Albany-TX.html
Built 1883-84 from plans by J.E. Flanders of Dallas, architect for several other 1880s Texas courthouses. Edgar Rye of Albany was construction superintendent. Kilted Scottish masons erected the walls of stone quarried a few miles southwest of town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LWX_texas-cattle-trail_Albany-TX.html
In Memory of
Texas Cattle
Trail
To Dodge City, Kansas
and Other Northern Points.
1875 1890
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LWW_first-producing-oil-well-in-west-texas_Albany-TX.html
Commemorating
First Producing Oil Well
In
West Texas
The Texas Company - J.E. Wild A 1
Survey 65, University Lands
Shackelford County
Completed Nov. 9, 1913
Presented to
The Texas Company
By
Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas
Association …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LWP_the-rev-john-brown-clara-barton-and-the-1886-1887-drought-relief_Albany-TX.html
Scottish immigrant John Brown (1842-1903) moved west following his theological studies in New York. He married Mary Jane Matthews Larn near Fort Griffin and in 1884 became minister of Albany Presbyterian Church, just as West Texas farmers and ranc…