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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S2S_mrs-j-a-b-miller-public-library-building_Coleman-TX.html
Financed by the Self-Culture Club and other local women's organizations, this structure was erected in 1909 to provide a meeting place for the groups and to house the city's library collection. In 1924 when money was no longer available to pay a l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S2R_coleman-county-jail_Coleman-TX.html
Second county jail. (First was a small 1879 structure on lawn of courthouse.) Erected in 1890, this building is a good example of Victorian jail architecture with some traces of Romanesque Revival. Belting at ground and second floors a notable det…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S2Q_the-blair-house_Coleman-TX.html
A native of Georgia, J.T. Blair (1876-1949) migrated to this area in 1897. He married Carrie Agnes Love, of a pioneer Coleman County family. They had five children. Blair served as foreman of the Overall Ranch, in addition to managing his own ranc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S24_site-of-flat-top-settlement_Voss-TX.html
A frontier center of traffic and communications. First known settler, Richard Coffey, lived here in 1860's, except in weeks when pioneers banded together in Pickettville Fort (NW of here) for protection against Indians.
This was on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S23_valera-cemetery_Coleman-TX.html
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad established a railway line about eight miles southwest of Coleman in 1904. The town of Valera developed in the area around the train depot. Its business district, established parallel to the railroad, ref…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S22_richard-a-pauley_Talpa-TX.html
A man who achieved boyhood wish to become a law officer, Pauley was a rancher before his election in 1923 to office of Coleman County Sheriff.
He was widely respected as a true gentleman. Often he did not carry a gun, preferring to conv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S21_route-of-old-military-road_Santa-Anna-TX.html
Opened in 1850s for supply trains and cavalry travel along line of U.S. forts from Belknap on the Brazos to Fort Mason and to Fort Clark near the Rio Grande.
Along this road passed great men, including Col. Robert E. Lee, later (1861-65…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S1W_trap-crossing-cemetery-coffey-cemetery-gann-family-cemetery_Voss-TX.html
This monument is dedicated to the memory of those persons that were buried in the Trap Crossing Cemetery (also known as Boot Hill Cemetery, Padgitt Ranch Cemetery, and Trigger Cemetery); the Coffey Cemetery; and the Gann Family Cemetery. The remai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S16_centennial-school_Talpa-TX.html
In 1936, the Valera, Bowen, White Chapel and New Central communities established a common high school. The new centralized campus - the second rural high school in Coleman County - was named to commemorate Texas' centennial of independence celebra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZY_white-chapel-cemetery_Coleman-TX.html
Coleman County was organized in 1867. The landscape in this area included high grasses, pecan and live oak trees. Deer, turkey, bear and antelope roamed freely. Into this wilderness came such pioneers as John Thomas and Julia Gowens Hamilton, Juli…