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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OSW_2-5-mi-east-is-birthplace-of-stanley-walker_Lampasas-TX.html
Noted Texas journalist and editor. Began his career in Austin and Dallas. From 1920 to 1935 was with New York "Herald-Tribune", where as city editor he trained many writers. Also was on staff of Philadelphia "Ledger". He wrote …
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The first permanent settlers came to this area shortly before Lampasas County organized in 1856. Oliver Hazzard Perry Townsen bought 640 acres from Samuel Horrell, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth in 1868. Townsen grew wheat and established a flour mill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MCF_entrance-to-site-of-townsens-mill_Lampasas-TX.html
Built on Mill Branch in 1872, Perry and Jasper Townsen's steam mill cut "rawhide" lumber and ground wheat and corn. Post office established 1881 moved in 1891 to Adamsville store of John Adams and The Rev. McCall Smith. Mr. Smith built, and was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MCE_united-presbyterian-church-of-adamsville_Lampasas-TX.html
In late 1880, The Rev. McCall Smith and 19 charter members met in the home of L. Jasper and Mary Ann Townsen. They organized the Pleasant Valley Cumberland Presbyterian Church and held services in a schoolhouse or under a brush arbor. In 1903 "the…
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One of the Lampasas sulphur springs named in honor of first settler in this vicinity in 1853, Moses Hughes, whose wife regained health through its waters.
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This cemetery, Lampasas' oldest, was established as a pioneer community graveyard in the mid-1850s. The first marked burial here was that of Rebecca Hughes in 1854. The cemetery is named after Arkansas natives William M. and Cynthia Cook who moved…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CK4_hancock-springs_Lampasas-TX.html
First white settlers in 1850's found Indians using curative waters here. Town was quickly developed around the springs. Stage and freight routes and many cattle drives came this way. The springs took the name of landowner, John Hancock. On a hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJY_hancock-springs-bathhouse_Lampasas-TX.html
Pioneer settlers began establishing homes near Lampasas Springs and Sulphur Creek in the 1850s. During the middle 19th century, stories of the mineral springs and their curative powers began attracting tourists to Lampasas, which was sometimes cal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJW_hostess-house_Lampasas-TX.html
Mineral springs such as nearby Hancock Springs flow into Sulphur Creek, providing Lampasas with waters for recreation and health. The Hancock Springs tract became a fashionable tourist attraction and convention and encampment site in the late 19th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIDO_naruna-cemetery_Lampasas-TX.html
William M. Spitler became Naruna's first postmaster in 1878, and he named the town after the riverboat that carried him to Texas from Tennessee. At that time, Naruna was an agricultural community with store, school, churches, fraternal lodges and …
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