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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RDE_the-butterfield-overland-stages_Newcastle-TX.html
Connecting St. Louis and San Francisco with weekly service, 1858-1861, traversed this county with a station at Fort Belknap
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Past This Point
Extended in 1851
A Military Road
Connecting Fort Belknap and Fort Worth. Over it passed troops, travelers, and supplies for the frontier posts.
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Kentucky native Peter Harmonson (1797-1865) came to Texas in 1845 as a settler in the Peters Colony. The following year he helped form Denton County, where he served as the first sheriff. In 1854 he brought his family here and established a ranch …
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A native of Kentucky, Joseph Alfred Woolfolk (1836-1918) earned a law degree from the University of Louisville in 1856. He moved to Belknap, Texas, in 1858, and was hired by the Texas Emigration and Land Company to survey land grants in the Peters…
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Two Miles Southwest to
Fort Belknap
Established in 1850
The largest military post in
northern Texas
until the Civil War.
The first county seat of
Young County.
A station on
the Southern Overland Mail Line
connecting
St. Louis and San …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RBL_proffitt-cemetery-veterans_Newcastle-TX.html
In Memory of Proffitt Cemetery Veterans
Blanton, James Herod - C.S.A. Civil War
World War IBellomy, W.B. · Bradshaw, Clay · Cagle, C.V. (Dugan) · Denton, Orville (Sonny) · Heard, Frank · Holbert, Wo…
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Members of the Robert Smith Proffitt family came to this area about 1862 and established homes. A son, John Proffitt (1846-1925), amassed large landholdings and built a gin and other businesses. The developing community was named Proffitt. At its …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RBJ_common-grave_Newcastle-TX.html
Three youths slain by Indians in an Elm Creek raid, July 17, 1867:
Rice Carlton, age 19; Reuben Johnson, born 1847, son of J. Allen Johnson; Patrick Euell Proffitt, born March 7, 1848, son of Robert S. Proffitt. John Proffitt, a brother, was do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RBI_indian-raid-on-elm-creek-c-s-a_Newcastle-TX.html
Indian troubles continually plagued the Texas frontier in the Civil War, with great loss in lives and property.
One of the most serious raids occurred near here on Oct. 13, 1864, at Fitzpatrick Ranch. Comanches killed seven ranch people…
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In memory of
Patrick Euell Proffitt,
Rice Carlton & Rueben Johnson,
Three 19 year old boys killed
In one of the Elm Creek
Indian raids, July 17, 1867