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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20CS_gomez-baptist-church_Brownfield-TX.html
On August 3, 1903, nine worshipers gathered together under a wagon sheet to organize a Baptist church. Led by the Rev. J. R. Miller, the congregation met once a month in the Gomez schoolhouse. A one-room sanctuary, erected in 1909, was moved three…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20CB_meadow-cemetery_Meadow-TX.html
This burial ground has served Meadow and northeast Terry County since 1921. Meadow originated in the early 20th century as Primrose, where settler W.N. Copeland opened a store and post office. The town later moved and was renamed for its location …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EET_route-of-nolan-expedition_Brownfield-TX.html
Army and civilian effort in 1877 to halt raiding of Chief "Old Black Horse's" Comanches.
In group were 60 Negro troops of Co. A, 10th U.S. Cavalry, and 22 buffalo hunters known as "The Forlorn Hope". Troops departed Fort Concho in early July, l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E9E_meadow-united-methodist-church_Meadow-TX.html
Methodist worship services were held in this area as early as 1904 by the Rev. J.A. Sweeney, a pioneer West Texas circuit rider. On Feb. 1, 1920, the Rev. J.W. Baughman formally organized this congregation with 17 charter members. Services were he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E9D_brooks-blacksmith-shop_Meadow-TX.html
The town of Meadow developed in the early 20th century, moving to meet the railroad in this location in 1917. In 1922, O.L. Puthuff built a blacksmith shop on this site. By that time, brothers Leslie and Herschel F. Brooks, Alabama natives, had mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E9C_meadow-depot_Meadow-TX.html
Meadow was founded in 1904 on public land grazed by L-7 Ranch herds; village moved to this site on the Santa Fe Railway line in 1917. Soon settlers were arriving with livestock in one end of a boxcar, furniture in the other. A boxcar was used as a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8V_site-of-joe-t-and-laura-hamilton-home_Brownfield-TX.html
In 1885, Joseph Thomas Hamilton (1856-1932) married Laura Letha Franklin (1867-1936) in Franklin County, Texas. Natives of southern U.S. states, the couple moved west with their first three children and settled here in 1902, before Terry County wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8U_maids-and-matrons-club_Brownfield-TX.html
In 1906, three years after the founding of Brownfield, eleven women gathered together to form a club. Named Maids and Matrons, the club became primarily a study group in 1907, and the members founded the town's first library that year. Affiliated …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8T_terry-countys-first-jail_Brownfield-TX.html
Terry County, organized in 1904, had no jail facility until this frame structure was erected in 1916 on the southeast corner of the courthouse square. The one-room building with two steel cells was replaced in 1926 by a jail located on the top flo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8S_a-m-brownfield-home_Brownfield-TX.html
A.M. Brownfield, for whose family this town was named, came to Terry County as a rancher in 1900. An early community leader, he organized the Brownfield State Bank in 1905. Built as a home for his family in 1928, this structure exhibits influences…