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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LOE_jackson-warehouse_Albany-TX.html
T.E. Jackson, a prominent businessman from Fort Griffin (15 mi. N) built this structure in the late 1870s as a warehouse for a general merchandise store. For more than 100 years, it served the town of Albany as the site of various commercial busin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LOD_hartfield-building_Albany-TX.html
Charles A. Hartfield purchased the lot on this site in 1881. A noted area cook, he quickly established "Charley's Restaurant," which included a bakery and boardinghouse. Hartfield was so successful that he planned an elegant rock structu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LOC_white-elephant-saloon_Albany-TX.html
The land on this site, Lot 9, Block 3 of the original town plat of Albany, was purchased in 1882 by noted local restauranteur Charles Hartfield. He planned to build a restaurant next door, and the pending establishment was much anticipated by loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LND_robert-edward-nail-jr_Albany-TX.html
Robert (Bobby) Nail graduated from Albany High School in 1926. In New Jersey, at Lawrenceville Prep. School and Princeton U., his literary activities were highly acclaimed. Nail directed theater groups in Fort Worth, Dallas and Abilene before retu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LNC_the-lynch-building_Albany-TX.html
This was Albany's first stone mercantile store. It was erected in stages, combining Greek Revival and Victorian Italianate designs. In 1878, W.H. Miller built 1-story east unit, and permitted Albany Masonic Lodge to erect a second story. Local ran…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LNB_first-christian-church_Albany-TX.html
In December 1886, Evangelist J.P. Pinkerton led 26 people from 19 families to found this church. Members met in the Shackelford County courthouse. Miss Betty Parker then gave $50 to buy land for a one-room frame building completed in January 1889 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IP7_granville-e-waters_Moran-TX.html
Born in Ashtabula County, Ohio in April 1852, Granville Eades Waters came to Texas in 1871. He settled in the north central part of the state before moving to Shackelford County in 1876. The next year, he wed Rennie Harris, daughter of a Waco mayo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IP6_moran-cemetery_Moran-TX.html
After Hulltown (later Moran) was founded in 1883, nearby Dennis and Johnson cemeteries were the only burial grounds. In 1896, Moran citizens elected local business leaders Matthew D. Bray, Aaron J. Thomas and John W. Despain as trustees for the pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IO8_cottle-no-1_Moran-TX.html
The appearance in 1908 of oil and gas in water wells in this vicinity prompted the Texas Company (later Texaco, Inc.) In June 1909 to begin leasing large tracts of land. After a surface geological survey, a wooden derrick complete with cable tools…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IO7_moran_Moran-TX.html
Pioneers came to this area as early as the 1860s. During the Civil War (1861-65), they built the temporary fortress settlement of Mugginsville on Deep Creek. At one time, a branch of the Western Cattle Trail passed nearby. Population increased aft…
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