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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E6I_half-way-oak_Cisco-TX.html
Half-Way Oak. . The Half-Way Oak has been a popular rest stop providing shade and comfort for those traveling on foot, horseback, wagons and automobiles for 200 years. The live oak tree got its name from its location half-way between Breckenridge …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2557_oakwood-cemetery_Cisco-TX.html
Dolphin William Bint (1845-1883) came to the United States from England in 1876 and settled in Eastland County in the Red Gap community. While on a journey to Fort Worth to buy lumber for their home, his wife gave birth to a stillborn son. His bur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2556_dothan-cemetery_Cisco-TX.html
The Texas and Pacific Railway built the Delmar depot near here in 1880 before rail activity shifted to Red Gap (later Cisco). A new community named Dothan formed and gained a post office in 1902. Jim and Manirval (Short) Dunaway, who settled here …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2553_old-mobley-hotel_Cisco-TX.html
First hotel owned by Conrad Hilton, who proceeded to become "The World's Foremost Innkeeper".
Built in 1916 by H.L. Mobley, a northerner, who sold out (1919) during Cisco's great oil boom to Hilton, then a 32-year-old ex-legis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2552_cisco-college_Cisco-TX.html
O.C. Britton opened Cisco's first college in 1909, with a campus established on 212 acres of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Survey. The school closed after the onset of World War I, and the site was used by a series of three later colleges…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2551_first-presbyterian-church-of-cisco_Cisco-TX.html
When the town of Cisco was platted in May 1881, land at the corner of Eighth Street and Avenue G was set aside for use by a Presbyterian congregation. In August of that same year, local residents Lillie Hightower, Mrs. F.F. Lattimer, Mrs. J.A. Lee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2550_the-bankhead-highway_Cisco-TX.html
The Bankhead National Highway, from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, California, was the nation's first all-weather, coast-to-coast highway. The southern road skirted the western mountains and was largely free from ice and snow, so it could be used …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM254Z_first-national-bank_Cisco-TX.html
Scene of daring Santa Claus Bank Robbery, Dec. 23, 1927.
During Christmas festivities, costumed Santa and three fellow bandits looted bank of $12,200 cash, $150,000 in securities. They escaped through gun battled with two little girls a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM254Y_first-baptist-church-of-cisco_Cisco-TX.html
The Rev. C.G. Stephens, founder of Red Gap community (1 mi. W), joined the Rev. W.B. Cobb in 1878 to organize the Red Gap Baptist Church. Forerunner of the First Baptist Church of Cisco, the Red Gap congregation had 13 charter members who met in a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM254X_first-united-methodist-church-of-cisco_Cisco-TX.html
The Rev. Lamb Trimble, a Methodist circuit rider, organized this church at Red Gap (two miles west) in 1880. The four charter members met in the home of M.V. Mitchell, a sheep rancher. The congregation moved to Cisco one year later when the city w…