Texas History, Genealogy, Old Photos, Postcards, Maps, and Information.Cities, Towns & Comm
Location: Quinlan, TX 32° 54' 37.44" N, 96° 8' 7.908" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: West Tawakoni, TX 32° 54' 9" N, 96° 1' 27.9984" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Wolfe City, TX 33° 22' 14.394" N, 96° 4' 7.8996" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Mertzon, TX 31° 15' 42.5952" N, 100° 49' 2.3736" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
La Ward is a city in Jackson County. The population was 200 at the 2000 census. The US Census Bureau estimates the population at 193 as of 1 July 2008.
Morales (pronounced More-Rails) was originally called Morales de Lavaca.
Texana, first county seat of Jackson County 1836-1883, was once called Santa Anna.
Macaroni Station. Forerunner of town of Edna; a camp and commissary during the building of the New York, Texas & Mexican railway, 1880-1882.
Location: Briaroaks, TX 32° 30' 12.4992" N, 97° 18' 18.054" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Site of Buchanan. Johnson County's second seat of government. (Wardville, just west of Nolan River, at U.S. 67, was first). Buchanan, named for president-elect of the United States
Location: Cross Timber, TX 32° 29' 11.0004" N, 97° 19' 37.9992" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Grandview. Settled in 1850 on land grant from Governor Elisha M. Pease. Supplies were hauled by ox wagon from Houston. A visitor exclaimed, "What a grand view!" Which gave community its name.
Location: Keene, TX 32° 23' 48.5124" N, 97° 19' 26.0544" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Lillian is on Farm Road 2738 fifteen miles northeast of Cleburne in northeastern Johnson County.
Rio Vista. Located in an area of Johnson County's earliest settlement, Rio Vista was founded on the railroad in 1885.
Site of Wardville. (1/4 mile south of marker) First county seat of Johnson County, chosen in Aug. 1855, and located on an 80-acre donation from William O'Neal.
Location: Boerne, TX 29° 47' 40.7904" N, 98° 43' 55.092" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Bear Creek Settlement. Started in 1850s by rancher Raleigh Gentry, who built a 2-room log house and cleared a small farm, but in 1862 sold out to cattlemen Rance Moore.
Bradbury Settlement was located 2 miles above the forks of North and South Llano Rivers, near Junction. Map location (above) is approximate.
Cleo is on Farm Road 2291 ten miles northwest of Junction in northern Kimble County.
The Ivy Community was named for Sam, Jack and BobI, brothers who moved to Kimble County in 1883.
Johnson Fork Colony. One of first settlements in Kimble County, founded early 1860's on land once owned by Samuel Maverick, famed pioneer Texas cattleman.
Noxville is located on Farm Road 479 and the James River, twenty-one miles east of Junction in southeastern Kimble County.
Roosevelt is on Ranch Road 291 sixteen miles west of Junction in western Kimble County.
Teacup is on U.S. Highway 377 eight miles northeast of Junction in eastern Kimble County.
Yates, also known as Yates Crossing, is twelve miles northeast of Junction in eastern Kimble County.
Dumont, on Farm Road 193 about 100 miles east of Lubbock in the northwestern corner of King County.
Finney is on Farm Road 193 100 miles northeast of Lubbock in King County.
Grow is on Farm Road 1168 some eighty-five miles northeast of Lubbock in north central King County.
Guthrie, the county seat of King County, is at the junction of U.S. highways 82 and 83, ninety-six miles east of Lubbock.
Location: Benjamin, TX 33° 35' 2.3316" N, 99° 47' 32.3268" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Goree, TX 33° 28' 2.3448" N, 99° 31' 28.3008" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Knox City, TX 33° 25' 5.3436" N, 99° 49' 8.328" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Munday, TX 33° 26' 57.3468" N, 99° 37' 22.3104" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Knox County. The railroads and other factories which have been operating in recent years to develop Haskell County have also been working...
Good Hope is located on U.S. Highway 90-A and Farm roads 133, 135 and 137, three miles east of Hallettsville in eastern Lavaca County.
Hope Baptist Church Originally called Shiloh Baptist Church, this congregation was constituted in 1885 with eight charter members, who first met in the Riggs Schoolhouse.
Midway is on Farm Road 958 and Lavaca County roads 326 and 332, halfway between Shiner and Yoakum in southwestern Lavaca County.
Novohrad School. For decades, Novohrad School provided educational opportunities for children living in the rural Bohemian community of Novohrad.
Old Moulton. At this point was center of original town of Moulton (named, according to tradition, by a man from Moulton, Alabama).
Petersburg was located six miles southeast of Hallettsville on Farm Road 2616 and the east bank of the Lavaca River.
Pilot Grove. The community of Pilot Grove was named for a landmark grove of trees. One of its first settlers was John Wesley Vick, who brought his family here about 1875.
Rabb Switch is located on U.S. Highway 90A five miles east of Hallettsville in northern Lavaca County.
Worthing. Following the Civil War, many of the original Anglo settlers to the area were gradually replaced by German and Czech immigrants eager to grow corn and cotton on small family farms.
Yoakum. Located on DeWitt-Lavaca county line on land granted by Mexico in 1835 to settler John May.
Location: Lexington, TX 30° 25' 8.7492" N, 97° 0' 41.9472" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Old Bowling School and Masonic Lodge. Built by settlers about 1860. Place for community meetings.
Centerview, once called Raymond, is a rural community located on Farm Road 811 about ten miles east of Centerville in southeastern Leon County.
Egypt is a tiny rural community located about twelve miles east of Centerville in eastern Leon County.
Little Flock Baptist Church began in this area in 1854. Early member names included Baldwin, Cothern, Hamlet, Lamb, Shipp, Steapleton and Thomas.
Long Hollow Community. Named for the pioneer Long family, the Long Hollow community consisted of area farm families.
The town of Marquez is located on the Missouri Pacific Railroad at the intersection of U.S.
Navarro, also known as Navarro Crossing, was on a country road and a bend of the Trinity River, east of Farm Road 542 and eighteen miles northeast of Centerville in eastern Leon County.
Oakwood is on State Highway 79 three miles west of the Trinity River in the northeastern corner of Leon County.
Pleasant Ridge is a rural community located on Farm Road 1119 about six miles southeast of Centerville in southeastern Leon County.
Rogers Prairie was on the Old San Antonio Road two miles east of Normangee in southern Leon County.
Russell is located on Farm Road 1511 twelve miles east of Centerville in east central Leon County.
Coolidge is at the intersection of State Highway 171 and Farm Road 73, eleven miles northwest of Mexia in northern Limestone County.
McKenzie Cemetery. The area surrounding this graveyard was known as McKenzie Prairie, named for Joseph S. McKenzie and his family who settled her in 1853.
Location: Booker, TX 36° 27' 12.114" N, 100° 32' 14.5212" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Follett, TX 36° 26' 2.1264" N, 100° 8' 29.4756" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Higgins, TX 36° 7' 11.1504" N, 100° 1' 27.444" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Lipscomb, the county seat of Lipscomb County, is on State Highway 305 in the central part of the county.
Lipscomb County occupies the northeast corner of the Panhandle. and is bounded on two sides by the State of Oklahoma.
Location: O'Donnell, TX 32° 57' 49.3524" N, 101° 49' 57.5544" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Tahoka, the county seat of Lynn County, is at the intersection of U.S. highways 87 and 380 near the center of the county.
Location: Wilson, TX 33° 19' 1.326" N, 101° 43' 26.562" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Lynn County was created in 1876, but was not organized until April. 1903, with Tahoka as the county seat.
This county is bounded on the north by Wharton county, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by Brazoria county and Gulf of Mexico, and on the west by Calhoun and Jackson counties.
Castroville History 1857. Castroville is a village containing a colony of Alsatians, who are proud here to call themselves Germans, but who speak French or a mixture of French and German.
D’Hanis History 1857. “D’Hanis, distant some twenty-five miles from Castroville, presents, certainly, a most singular spectacle, upon the verge of the great American wilderness.
Location: Devine, TX 29° 8' 23.8668" N, 98° 54' 19.1016" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Hondo, TX 29° 20' 50.8452" N, 99° 8' 29.13" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: LaCoste, TX 29° 18' 41.0004" N, 98° 48' 46.0008" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Natalia, TX 29° 11' 22.8624" N, 98° 51' 45.0972" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Vandenburg History 1857. Vandenburg, has been lately deserted by most of its inhabitants, after they had built themselves houses and brought a considerable quantity of land into cultivation
Medina County. A great deal of the surface of this county is made up of hill, dale, valley, and prairie
Location: Buckholts, TX 30° 52' 22.6776" N, 97° 7' 29.9712" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Milano, TX 30° 42' 37.7028" N, 96° 51' 47.9304" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Rockdale, TX 30° 39' 19.7136" N, 97° 0' 4.9464" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Thorndale, TX 30° 36' 49.716" N, 97° 12' 19.9728" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Democrat Cemetery. Although settlement of this area dates to 1878, this graveyard was not established until the turn of the 20th century.
North Brown Cemetery. Named for creek followed by homeseekers, this burial ground originated about 1857 when death struck at a nearby campsite.
North Bennett, formerly known as Head, is located on Farm Road 2005, twelve miles northeast of Goldthwaite and four miles northwest of Center City in eastern Mills County.
Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Named for the live oaks banking Simms Creek, Pleasant Grove was settled by Civil War veterans from both the North and South.
Location: Loraine, TX 32° 24' 40.428" N, 100° 42' 44.3952" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Mitchell County. Located on the headwaters of the Colorado River, and traversed by the Texas & Pacific Railway since 1881
Location: Cactus, TX 36° 3' 8.1252" N, 102° 0' 8.6364" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Dumas, TX 35° 51' 56.142" N, 101° 58' 23.646" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Sunray, TX 36° 1' 0.1308" N, 101° 49' 28.6176" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Moore County. Organized July 6, 1892, Moore County in 1890 had a population of 15; in 1900, 209 ; in 1910, 561, and in 1920, 571.
Roaring Springs Depot. Under the leadership of Samuel Lazarus (1855-1926), the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railroad contributed much to Motley County's economic development.
At the junction of the Middle Pease River and Tee Pee Creek, is the site of Tee Pee City.
This area of Motley County was first called "Whiteflat" due to the tall white needlegrass which covered the flat prairie land.
Motley County. The western portion of Motley County lies in the Staked Plains region of Texas, and in many portions its undulating surface is broken and mountainous.
Blooming Grove. The history of Blooming Grove can be traced to the small village of Gradyville, established in the 1860s and named for two brothers
