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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8M_twentieth-century-club_Borger-TX.html
Borger, the oil-boom town that sprang to life here in 1926, had among its otherwise transient and rowdy early citizenry, a social and professional group of people accustomed to a more refined cultural and literary environment. Such a person was Sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8J_borger-1929-jail_Borger-TX.html
Texas Rangers came to Boomtown Borger in 1929, to clean out the town of corruption, bootlegging, and prostitution, Prisoners were chained together and secured to a log such as this one. This crude jail was used to hold them until their day in cour…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8H_quanah-parker-trail_Borger-TX.html
Battles at Adobe Walls near here:
Commanches & Allied Tribes 1864
Quanah Parker & Allied Tribes 1874
Arrow Sculptor: Charles A. Smith
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7Y_plemons-cemetery_Borger-TX.html
The town of Plemons was settled about 1898 when James A. Whittenburg, an area rancher, built a dugout house in a hill overlooking a bend in the Canadian River about seven miles northeast of this site. The town was named for Barney Plemons, son of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7X_bents-creek_Borger-TX.html
Named for Charles (1799-1847) and William Bent (1809-1869), famed for frontier trading with mountain men and "wild" Indians. As early as 1835 they came from their headquarters near present La Junta, Colo., to trade with the Kiowas and Comanches al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7W_battle-of-adobe-walls_Borger-TX.html
Fifteen miles to the site of the
Battle of Adobe Walls
Fought on November 25, 1864
between Kiowa and Comanche Indians
and United States troops
commanded by
Colonel Christopher Carson
1809 - 1868
This was "Kit" Carson's last fight
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7U_fritz-thompson-bridge_Borger-TX.html
Fritz Thompson was Hutchinson County Commissioner from 1937 through 1952, during which time much of the highway system in Hutchinson County was conceived. He was Borger City Manager from October 1, 1953 to September 30, 1956, during which time he …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7S_first-battle-of-adobe-walls_Morse-TX.html
Largest Indian battle in Civil War. 15 miles east, at ruins of Bent's Old Fort, on the Canadian.
3,000 Comanches and Kiowas, allies of the South, met 372 Federals under Col. Kit Carson, famous scout and mountain man. Though Carson made a brillian…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7R_isaac-mccormick-cottage_Stinnett-TX.html
Built 1899 with materials hauled at great peril across the Canadian - then without a bridge. Mr. McCormick, his wife, Capitola, and eight children lived in a covered wagon and a tent while they put up their house.
Home became cradle of county gov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7Q_hutchinson-county-courthouse_Stinnett-TX.html
Hutchinson County, named for prominent judge and writer Anderson Hutchinson, was one of 54 counties created out of the District of Bexar in 1876 by the Texas Legislature. It was not until 1901, however, that the county was officially organized. Th…