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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27WW_george-bernhard-erath_Stephenville-TX.html
Protector of the Texas frontier. Hero of San Jacinto. Major in the Confederate Army. Member of the Texas Congress and Legislature. Born in Vienna, Austria January 1, 1813. Died at Waco, Texas May 15, 1891. Erath County was named in his honor.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27VM_clairette-schoolhouse_Hico-TX.html
The first Clairette schoolhouse was a one-room log structure built as early as 1871. This two-story building was constructed in 1912, one year after the creation of the Clairette Independent School District. It served until 1949, when the rural sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27NC_erath-arches_Stephenville-TX.html
The Erath Arches were constructed in honor of soldier, surveyor, and legislator George B. Erath (1813-1891), for whom Erath County was named in 1856. The monument was one of many built around the state to celebrate the 1936 centennial of Texas ind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM258Z_st-barbaras-catholic-church_Mingus-TX.html
Most of Thurber's immigrant population, representing eighteen nationalities, were Catholic. Missionary priests ministered to the town until 1892, then the coal company erected a Catholic church at the bottom of Graveyard Hill. Originally named St.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM258Y_new-york-hill_Mingus-TX.html
This area of Thurber developed after 1917, when the Texas and Pacific Coal Company expanded into the burgeoning oil industry following W.K. Gordon's discovery of the Ranger oil field. Renamed in 1918, the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company brought…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM258X_site-of-thurber-brick-plant_Mingus-TX.html
Texas and Pacific Coal Company general manager W.K. Gordon, seeing potential in the shale mud found in Thurber, persuaded company president R.D. Hunter to build a brick plant here in 1897. Original machinery included three Ross-Keller brick presse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM258W_site-of-thurbers-first-coal-mine_Mingus-TX.html
Two hundred yards southeast of this site, at the base of the hill and at a depth of 65 feet, the first coal mine in this area was placed in operation by brothers William W. and Harvey E. Johnson. After Harvey's death in 1888, and because of labor …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM258V_whitehead-cemetery_Mingus-TX.html
The Whitehead Cemetery is a significant reminder of the African American community that occupied the Thurber townsite in the early 20th century. When the Texas and Pacific Coal and Oil Company relocated its offices to Fort Worth in 1933, several f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UV4_thurber-cemetery-historical_Mingus-TX.html
Encompassing slightly more than nine acres, the Thurber Cemetery documents the multi-ethnic Thurber community. The graveyard was divided into three sections with separate entrances: Catholic, Protestant, and African American. There are more than 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UV3_site-of-thurber-big-lake-and-dairy-historical_Mingus-TX.html
In 1891, a 20-acre "little lake" was built south of the Thurber townsite to supply water to the community. It soon proved inadequate, however, and five years later a 150-acre "big lake" was constructed here about a mile southea…