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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8R_first-baptist-church-of-brownfield_Brownfield-TX.html
Circuit riding preachers led early Brownfield settlers in religious services at a local schoolhouse. On April 1, 1906, several area residents formed a Baptist church. The Rev. M.D. Williams became the congregation's first pastor. The church built …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8F_colonel-b-f-terry-terrys-texas-rangers_Brownfield-TX.html
Front Side:County named for Texas ConfederateColonel B. F. Terry1821 - 1861Native of Kentucky. Came to Texas 1831. Member Secession Convention. Commanded reinforcements of state troops sent to Rio Grande for the capture of Federal arms, property a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8E_city-of-brownfield_Brownfield-TX.html
County seat of Terry County, founded in 1903 by developers W.G. Hardin and A.F. Small.
Named for Brownfield family, prominent property owners and ranchers in the area.
Measuring with only 100 feet of wire, Hardin and Small laid out a town on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8D_brownfield-municipal-power-plant_Brownfield-TX.html
During the 1920s, when much of rural Texas was still without electricity, the town of Brownfield took a leap toward modernization. The town incorporated in 1920 and one year later held a vote on the issuance of bonds for the creation of a power pl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8C_brownfield-cemetery_Brownfield-TX.html
The first public burial ground in the new Terry County seat of Brownfield was begun in 1904 when 19-year-old Jessie Hill died and was interred here. By 1907, this land belonged to M. V. Brownfield; records do not indicate whether the cemetery was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E8B_gomez-cemetery_Brownfield-TX.html
Established in 1902 in Gomez (then 0.5 mi. W of here), first settlement in Terry County. Original 4-acre tract was deeded to Gomez School trustees in 1906 by pioneer settler H.F. Adams. Some of earliest settlers are buried here. Many graves were m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E89_gomez_Brownfield-TX.html
In 1903, owners of land here in center of then-unorganized Terry County platted this town, secured a post office named for Spanish-American patriot Maximo Gomez, drilled a public water well, and induced merchants and citizens to move here. This wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CWC_tokio-school_Brownfield-TX.html
Early classes in the Tokio Area were held in the ranch house of the J Cross Ranch near the turn of the century. In 1911, a school building was constructed near the center of town (about 300 feet N), and classes were relocated. Larger school buildi…