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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHJH_denuded-ouachita-rock-belt_Montague-Township-TX.html
Denuded Ouachita Rock Belt In highway cuts toward the east are excellent exposures of almost vertical rocks layers—part of the Ouachita Fold Belt, a northeasterly trending folded and faulted mountainous range which was uplifted about 275 to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHIT_burgess-water-hole_Alpine-TX.html
Called San Lorenzo by Juan Dominguez de Mendoza,1684. Later Charco Alzate in honor of an Apache chieftain. Water hole honoring John W. Burgess, pioneer freighter who here outwitted the Apaches. The emigrant road to California by the way of Chihuah…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI5_chambers-hotel_Marathon-TX.html
Chambers Hotel. Original adobe building constructed in 1891. First owner, Mrs. Mary Collins. Purchased in 1905 by (Gran) Chambers. Enlarged and a wooden frame built over the thick walls. Operated as Chambers Hotel until 1930.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI4_ancient-rocks-boundary_Alpine-TX.html
The mountains toward the east are limestone reef beds deposited in the Cretaceous and Permian seas about 135 million years ago and 250 million years ago; respectively. The limestone reefs overlie deformed rocks in the Ouachita Fold Belt, which is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDV_the-gage-hotel_Marathon-TX.html
This brick hotel building, designed by the El Paso firm of Trost and Trost, was constructed in 1926-27 for Vermont native Alfred S. Gage. A cattleman, Gage founded the largest ranching operation in the Trans-Pecos, consisting of over 600 sections …