Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps (Bellville) Austin | Bastrop | (Beeville) Bee | Brazoria | (Lockhart) Caldwell | (Port Lavaca) Calhoun | (Anahuac) Chambers | (Columbus) Colorado...
Young County, Texas Pleasant Tackett, a Methodist minister, settled in Parker County in 1854. Two years later he moved his family to Young County, and numbered among the first settlers of that section. The Tackett home was located on the old Fort...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps (Archer City) Archer | (Seymour) Baylor | (Meridian) Bosque | (Henrietta) Clay | (McKinney) Collin | (Gainesville) Cooke | Dallas | (Cooper) Delta...
Parker County, Texas Mann D. Tackett and family moved to Parker County in 1854 and for a few years lived about twelve miles north of Weatherford. During 1858, they moved to Jack County and settled on Boone's Creek, in the southwestern part of the...
This historical marker is set back on what seems to be private property, belonging to the house just west of the road. You can see the marker if you venture west on Verna to the driveway. But take caution, there is a bad dip at the entrance that...
Young County, Texas During June of 1869, the Indians killed Frank Taylor, who carried the mail from Belknap to Jacksboro. Frank Taylor had gone about ten miles east of Belknap, and was riding in an old backboard buggy. Frank Taylor was scalped and...
Kerr County, Texas August 8, 1865, there lived at the head springs of the Pedernales, in the eastern edge of the present town of Harper, Matthew Taylor and wife, Eli McDonald and wife, Mahaley and Beckie Jane McDonald, children of Mr. and Mrs. Eli...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Theodore Roosevelt National Park 315 2nd Ave Medora, ND 58645 South Unit Information; Phone: 701-623-4466 North Unit Information; Phone: 701-842-2333 Fax: 701-623-4840 History When Theodore...
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