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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H2C_castle-peak_Abilene-TX.html
The Butterfield Overland Mail, the first public transportation facility spanning the area from the Mississippi to the Pacific with passenger and mail service, 1858-61, used the 2400-foot peak to the northeast as a beacon. The drivers and passenger…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H2B_vicinity-of-indian-fight_Abilene-TX.html
On New Year Day, 1871, Indian raiders who had stolen horses in Coleman County were pursued and overtaken here by 18 Texas Rangers and cowboys. Leaders of the group were Captain James M. Swisher and rancher Sam Gholson.
?????The Indians took refuge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H27_camp-barkeley_Abilene-TX.html
Site of main entrance to Camp Barkeley, one of the nation largest military camps of World War II. At peak, 60,000 men were in training here. Named for Pvt. David B. Barkeley of the 89th Division, who died on a secret scouting expedition behind Ger…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H0D_drummond-cemetery_Abilene-TX.html
In 1879, after her husband death in Jamaica, Helen Fanny Harris Drummond returned with her children to England. She immigrated with them to the United States in 1885, settling in Brazos County, Texas. In October 1891, she purchased 100 acres in Ta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GZY_butterfield-trail_Merkel-TX.html
U.S. Mail Route
St. Louis to Los Angeles
1858 - 1861
Crossed at this point
Marked by
John Davis Chapter D.A.R.
1929
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GZD_lt-col-william-e-dyess_Abilene-TX.html
Albany, Texas native William Edwin Dyess (b. 1916) graduated from John Tarleton Agricultural College and became an aviation cadet at Randolph Field, San Antonio. Dyess went to the Philippine Islands as commander of the 21st Pursuit Squadron of P-4…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F61_taylor-county_Tuscola-TX.html
Created 1858. Named for Edward, James and George Taylor, 18, 20 and 22, Tennesseans who came to Texas in 1833 and died at the Alamo March 6, 1836.?????Organized 1878, with county seat at Buffalo Gap, through which went the Fort Concho to Fort Belk…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F5Z_cedar-gap-community_Tuscola-TX.html
Originally named Coates for early settler Kem Coates, Cedar Gap community formed in the late 19th century. Coates, on whose land the post office was later located, arrived in the 1870s, and by the early 1880s, a number of families from Robertson C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F5N_buffalo-gap-cemetery_Buffalo-Gap-TX.html
Oldest public cemetery in Taylor County; used by residents of Buffalo Gap even before the earliest known headstones were erected about 1877.?????In the older section of the ten-acre plot are 146 graves, many of Civil War veterans and pioneer citiz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F55_12th-armored-division-at-camp-barkeley_Abilene-TX.html
Established as a U.S. Army training camp in 1940, Camp Barkeley (whose main entrance was about seven miles south of this site) became one of the nation's largest World War II military training bases. The 12th Armored Division, activated at Camp Ca…