You searched for City|State|Country: , tx us
Showing results 1 to 10 of 10
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W5D_rocking-chair-ranche-historical_Wellington-TX.html
Owned by Scottish Earls of Aberdeen and Tweedmouth. The headquarters were at Aberdeen (about 7 mi NE). Starting with 14,745 cattle, the Rocking Chair made profits for a few years, then failed. In north part of county are hills bearing its name. Al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W5C_quanah-parker-trail-historical_Wellington-TX.html
Comanches once hunted Buffalo on
Salt Fork of the Red and Buck Creek
in present day Collingsworth Co.
Arrow Sculptor: Charles A Smith
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W4F_methodism-in-collingsworth-county-historical_Wellington-TX.html
Originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most Collingsworth County communities were small settlements that grew up around area ranches. A number of Methodist congregations were formed throughout the county by circuit-riding ministers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W4E_first-methodist-church-of-wellington-historical_Wellington-TX.html
Organized in 1890 by the Rev. J.H. Linderman and a small group of charter members, this congregation was the only Methodist church in the county by 1984. The first worship services were held in a small wooden building which also served as the firs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W4D_collingsworth-county-historical_Wellington-TX.html
Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created · Organized
August 21, 1876 · November 4, 1890
Named in Honor of
James Collinsworth
1806-1838
The first Chief Justice of the
Republic of Texas. Signer of the
Declaration…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W49_collingsworth-county-hospital-historical_Wellington-TX.html
Original hospital on this site (first in county) was built in 1917 by L.H. Stall. One of the two surgeons then practicing here, Dr. Elmer Wood Jones (1891-1962), bought the facility in 1924. In 1935 he built a 15-bed hospital of fieldstone on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W48_o-neil-building-historical_Wellington-TX.html
Bricks visible in the facade of this structure were left over from construction of the first Collingsworth County Courthouse in 1893. Contractor, J.A. White built the courthouse of locally-made bricks and then, with the extra materials, erected th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWM4_site-of-lutie-school_Shamrock-TX.html
The community of Lutie, named for early settler Lutie Gresham Templeton. Traces its history to 1909. Two years previously, local citizens had formed the Pleasant Valley School about one mile northeast of the townsite. Community leaders moved the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWM1_nicholson-school_Shamrock-TX.html
Once the center of a thriving agricultural community, Nicholson School was named for county judge Arthur Clyde Nicholson, during whose term the school was opened in 1915. As Nicholson School increased in enrollment, reaching a peak of 150 students…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMALY_the-red-river-plunge-of-bonnie-and-clyde_Wellington-TX.html
On June 10, 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pritchard and family saw from their home on the bluff (west) the plunge of an auto into Red River. Rescuing the victims, unrecognized as Bonnie Parker and Clyde and Buck Barrow, they sent for help. Upon their arr…