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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U92_first-national-bank-of-paris-historical_Paris-TX.html
Organized and opened for business at its present location in 1886 by William J. McDonald (1844-1926), Civil War veteran and lawyer. Earlier he had opened the Citizens Bank of Clarksville and in 1889 he established a Delta County Bank. Under his sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U91_lamar-county-c-s-a-historical_Paris-TX.html
On uneasy border of Indian Territory in the Civil War. A military transport center, on the Old Central National Road surveyed in 1844 by the Republic of Texas, to run from San Antonio, crossing Red River north of Paris. A rich farming area. Lamar …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U90_lamar-county-courthouse-historical_Paris-TX.html
The March 1916 fire that left downtown Paris in ruins ravaged Lamar County's massive 1897 Romanesque courthouse and tower, once thought indestructible. On April 20, 1916, the Lamar County Commissioners Court chose local designers and builders Will…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U8M_the-paris-fire-1916-historical_Paris-TX.html
Although Paris was founded in the mid-1840s, many of its historic structures were lost in a fire that destroyed almost half the town in 1916. The blaze started about five o'clock on the afternoon of March 21, 1916, at the S. J. Long Warehouse near…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U8G_st-josephs-hospital-historical_Paris-TX.html
In 1911 the Catholic bishop of Dallas, Joseph Patrick Lynch (1872-1954), beseeched the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word to administer St. Joseph's Infirmary in Paris. The congregation, based in San Antonio and experienced in hospital care,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TSN_union-station-historical_Paris-TX.html
Attempts to bring rail service to Lamar County began in the mid-1800s, but a line did not reach the city of Paris until one was built to the south side of town in 1875. Residents raised money to entice the St. Louis & San Francisco (Frisco) to ext…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TSM_central-national-road-of-the-republic-of-texas-historical_Paris-TX.html
Designed as a military highway, intended to make linkage with United States military road built to the north of the Red River in the 1820s.
This was part of the national effort of Republic of Texas to open a good road system. Congress in 1839 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TS7_paris-fire-department-historical_Paris-TX.html
Fire protection in Paris dates to the early 1870s, when a group of businessmen led by Willet Babcock organized a volunteer fire company. Known as Phoenix Fire Company No. 1, the volunteer unit continued in operation until the city created a paid f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TQB_lamar-county-historical_Paris-TX.html
Created December 17, 1840
from Red River County
Organized in 1841
Named in honor of
Mirabeau B. Lamar, 1798 - 1859
Father of Texas education
President of the Republic of Texas
1838 - 1841
Lafayette, 1841
Mount Vernon, 1843
Paris,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TMO_paris-cotton-compress-historical_Paris-TX.html
In the early 1880s, cotton began to dominate Texas agriculture as a principal cash crop, with over two million cultivated acres producing 800,000 bales of cotton per year. With the 1876 arrival of the first railroad line to Paris, local businessme…