Shackelford County, Texas During the closing year of the Civil War, Phil Runnels was working for W.H. Ledbetter, who operated the Old Ledbetter Salt Works about nine miles south and west of the present city of Albany. Early in the morning Phil...
Shackelford County, Texas Several years before the secession of the states, Capt. Gibbons constructed a stone ranch residence, on the Old California Trail, in Throckmorton County, a few miles east of the Haskell County line. This building remained...
Shackelford County, Texas During the early days, it was the custom for several frontier ranches in a certain section to confederate together and employ some one to conduct a community school. And for convenience such schools were usually conducted...
Shackelford County, Texas The same Indians mentioned in the preceding section, (George Hazlewood story) next appeared at the Old Ledbetter Salt Works, about nine miles south and west of the present city of Albany, in Shackelford County. The Old...
Markers (click on a topic to jump to that section.) City of Albany | Butterfield Overland Mail | Cook Ranch Oil Field | Family Forts, C.S.A. | First Producing Oil Well in West Texas | Fort Griffin Civil Jail | Gilbert, Russel Young | Ledbetter...
The Flats:Texas's First Boom Town Shackelford County, Texas Albany | Clear Fork | Flats | Fort Davis | Fort Griffin Reynolds Company Cowboys, Frequent Visitors at the Flats From the book, A Texas Frontier, by Ty Cashion The following is from the...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Albany | Fort Davis Uncommemorated Sites from North to South Indians Attack the Reynolds Ranch | Albany | Fort Phantom Hill | Fierce Fight at the Ledbetter Salt Works | Mysterious Disappearance of John Ledbetter | Banty...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Shackelford County, Texas Albany | Camp Cooper | Clear Fork | Flats | Fort Davis | Fort Griffin More Stories and Information on Fort Tours Road Trips Early settlers to this far-flung...
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