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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ST_corsicana_Corsicana-TX.html
Soon after Navarro County was created by the Texas Legislature in 1846, a committee was appointed to choose a site for the county seat. The committee selected a 100-acre tract of land that came to be the city of Corsicana. The town was named for C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14SQ_westminster-presbyterian-church_Corsicana-TX.html
On May 16, 1853, the Reverend John Patton and about 20 Cumberland Presbyterians formed the first organized church in Corsicana. Other Presbyterians organized later: The First Church, U. S., in 1868; and an Associate Reformed Church (1895) that in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14R9_the-birthplace-of-the-petroleum-industry_Corsicana-TX.html
West of the Mississippi River, in this well, drilled by H. G. Johnston, E. H. Akin, and Charles Rittersbacher under contract for a water well for the city of Corsicans in 1894, the first oil in commercial quantities in the mid-continent area was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14JU_the-powell-oil-field_Kerens-TX.html
One of the world's most noted petroleum fields. Discovered 1905; developed in three periods. A number of early shallow wells (800' - 1,000' in Nacatoch sand), drilled by Claude Witherspoon, are still producing. Field's second and greatest era came…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14JR_ymca-of-corsicana_Corsicana-TX.html
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Corsicana was organized in 1884 and was one of only two YMCAs in the state at that time. E. W. (Wiley) Johnson served as first president of the organization that met in a room over the First National…