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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255S_last-mob-lynching-in-the-state-of-texas_Eastland-TX.html
At this site, on Tuesday night, Nov. 19, 1929, Marshall Ratliff was hung from a utility pole guy wire until dead before a crowd of about 1,500 people. Ratliff was also known as the Santa Claus Robber for his dressing as Santa Claus and leading a g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255R_connellee-majestic-theatre_Eastland-TX.html
Built in 1920 by C.U. Connellee, the "Father of Eastland", this theatre hosted numerous road shows, musical performances, and plays, and was a noted showplace for many years. Purchased by Interstate Theatres in 1946, the building was rem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255Q_eastland-county-world-war-i-memorial-a-war-memorial_Eastland-TX.html
Erected by Civic League in memory of those from Eastland Co who made supreme sacrifice in World War
Lewis Alexander Dulin · Dennis George Perdue · Winter Daniels · James Lee Miller · James B. Wright ·…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255N_first-united-methodist-church-of-eastland_Eastland-TX.html
Methodist worship services were held in Eastland County as early as 1865. Soon after the town of Eastland was laid out in 1875, Methodists began meeting in a small log house. The congregation was organized and served for a time by the Rev. Melvill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2557_oakwood-cemetery_Cisco-TX.html
Dolphin William Bint (1845-1883) came to the United States from England in 1876 and settled in Eastland County in the Red Gap community. While on a journey to Fort Worth to buy lumber for their home, his wife gave birth to a stillborn son. His bur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2556_dothan-cemetery_Cisco-TX.html
The Texas and Pacific Railway built the Delmar depot near here in 1880 before rail activity shifted to Red Gap (later Cisco). A new community named Dothan formed and gained a post office in 1902. Jim and Manirval (Short) Dunaway, who settled here …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2553_old-mobley-hotel_Cisco-TX.html
First hotel owned by Conrad Hilton, who proceeded to become "The World's Foremost Innkeeper".
Built in 1916 by H.L. Mobley, a northerner, who sold out (1919) during Cisco's great oil boom to Hilton, then a 32-year-old ex-legis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2552_cisco-college_Cisco-TX.html
O.C. Britton opened Cisco's first college in 1909, with a campus established on 212 acres of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Survey. The school closed after the onset of World War I, and the site was used by a series of three later colleges…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2551_first-presbyterian-church-of-cisco_Cisco-TX.html
When the town of Cisco was platted in May 1881, land at the corner of Eighth Street and Avenue G was set aside for use by a Presbyterian congregation. In August of that same year, local residents Lillie Hightower, Mrs. F.F. Lattimer, Mrs. J.A. Lee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2550_the-bankhead-highway_Cisco-TX.html
The Bankhead National Highway, from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, California, was the nation's first all-weather, coast-to-coast highway. The southern road skirted the western mountains and was largely free from ice and snow, so it could be used …