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Ledbetter lies in the northern part of the county on the Houston & Texas Central about one mile north of Cummings Creek on the watershed between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers.
Hobbs Cemetery. Settlers began moving into this area of Fisher County in the early 1880s.
First known as White Flat, the town of Rotan was settled prior to the organization of Fisher County in 1886.
Located on land originally included in a land grant to Texas War for Independence veteran Thomas H. Cosby, the town of Roby was first platted in 1885.
Floydada, the county seat, had a population in 1910 of 664. and has greatly improved since the railroad came.
Thalia was originally named "Paradise", but when the town applied for a post office, the name was rejected, so the town was renamed "Thalia"
First known as Pease. Renamed in honor of Margaret Wesley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley.
Mount Vernon, the county seat of Franklin County, is seventy-two miles southwest of Texarkana and ninety-six miles northeast of Dallas in the central portion of the county.
Franklin County has been home to two courthouses, both located in Mount Vernon.
Dew is at the junction of State Highway 75 and Farm Road 489, nine miles south of Fairfield in southern Freestone County.
Southland is an unincorporated community in Garza County, located along the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado on U.S. Route 84, twenty miles northwest of Post.
Originally, Post City. The town became Post when it incorporated in 1914.
Close City, once called Ragtown, is located on Ranch Road 399 two miles north of U.S. Highway 380 and eleven miles west of Post in western Garza County.
Justiceburg is an unincorporated community in Garza County. It is located along the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River, 15 miles southeast of the county seat, Post.
Verbena, Texas, is located on Farm Road 2008 about twelve miles northeast of Post in northeast Garza County.
The Site of Zodiac. A Mormon settlement. Established in 1847 by 150 Mormons under the leadership of Lyman Wight (1796-1858).
Doss is on Mormon Creek nineteen miles northwest of Fredericksburg in northwestern Gillespie County.
Garden City, located at the intersection on Highway 158 and Ranch Road 33, became the county seat of Glasscock County, shortly after the county was formed in 1893.
St. Lawrence is an unincorporated community located on FM 2401 south of Garden City.
Alanreed is on Interstate Highway 40 and U.S. Highway 66 in southern Gray County.
Pampa. In 1888 a telegraph station on the Southern Kansas Railroad developed here, and was named Glasgow.
Memphis is the county seat and has some 3,000 population. The city has all modern conveniences and improvements.
Location: Estelline, TX 34° 32' 48.21" N, 100° 26' 17.4336" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Early inhabitants of this area were Comanche and Kiowa Indians whose campsites were situated around four dolomite hills called Medicine Mounds and known for their healing properties.
Location: Acme, TX 29° 25' 17.5188" N, 98° 35' 15.6372" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Quanah History 1922. The city of Quanah, which was named after Quanah Parker, the noted Indian chief, grew up with the building of the first railroad, and its progress is typical of the development of the surrounding country.
Location: Chillicothe, TX 34° 15' 23.2956" N, 99° 31' 0.3216" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Haskell is at the junction of U.S. Highways 277 and 380 in the central part of the Haskell County. It was once on the Fort Worth and Denver Railway.
Location: Baytown, TX 29° 44' 7.818" N, 94° 58' 38.7372" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location : Bryan, TX 30° 40' 27.7104" N, 96° 22' 11.8668" W, See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location : College Station, TX 30° 37' 40.7172" N, 96° 20' 3.8652" W, See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
My Hometown: the Bedias Story,1953, by Wallace Davis. Location :Bedias, TX 30° 46' 32.6964" N, 95° 56' 57.8292".
Morgan’s Point, also known as Rightor’s, Hunter’s, and Clopper’s Point and New Washington, now a resort and residential district, is twenty miles south of Houston at the junction of Buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River.
Lynchburg, 1935. Lynchburg is a new town at the mouth of the San Jacinto and Buffalo Bayou, at the head of Galveston bay; it is a point in the eastern mail route from San Felipe.
Location : Uncertain, TX 32° 42' 43.5168" N, 94° 7' 16.6692" W
Carl’s Corner was founded by, and named after, Carl Cornelius, a local truck stop owner and long-time friend of Willie Nelson. Cornelius founded the town for the purpose of legalizing alcohol sales in the otherwise mostly-dry county.
Hubbard is a city in Hill County in Central Texas. It was named for Texas Governor Richard B. Hubbard. The population was 1,586 at the 2000 census.
Aquilla. Named for Aquilla (from the Spanish word for “Eagle”) Creek. The townsite was surveyed, 1879, when the Texas Central Railroad was built through Hill County.
City of Hillsboro. In 1853, the Texas Legislature carved Hill County out of Navarro County. Named for physician and Republic of Texas Secretary of War Dr. George Washington Hill, the new county had only recently attracted Anglo settlement.
According to the US Census Bureau, Bynum has a total area of 0.2 square miles, all of it land. It is named after longtime educator and businessman Dale Gordon Bynum, who died in 2009.
Penelope. Founded by International and Great Northern Railroad in 1902. Named for child of official. Settled by Anglos and Czechs from Zee Vee, older town (1/2 mile south) founded in 1893.
Birome. Founded 1910. One of five International and Great Northern Railway stations in southern Hill County. Important agricultural market.
Location : Grapeland, TX 31° 29′ 30.642″ N, 95° 28′ 42.8196″ W
Big Spring is the county seat of Howard County. It is situated on the Texas & Pacific Railway, 270 miles west of Fort Worth, and is a division point on that road.
Location : Caddo Mills, TX 33° 3' 56.4228" N, 96° 13' 39.918" W
Barnhart is located at the intersection of US 67 and HIghway 163, east of Big Lake and west of Mertzon in Irion County.
Ganado is located in Jackson County, Texas. The population was 1,915 at the 2000 census.
Francitas. The LaBauve family moved here from Louisiana in the 1800s; many are buried in nearby LaBauve Cemetery.
The new town at Cox’s Point will eventually rival Matamoras, inasmuch as it has a better harbor, and is equally near to all the great mining districts.
Hebbronville, the county seat of Jim Hogg County, is at the junction of State highways 16, 285, and 359, at the northern edge of the county.
Cleburne History 1922. Cleburne is the county seat of Johnson County and was founded in 1867, when the county seat was moved from Buchanan, about six miles north of Cleburne, and was named in honor of Gen.
Godley, on the Weatherford branch of the Santa Fe, in the northwest part of the county, is a town of about 1,500 people. - History of Texas, 1922.
Alvarado was established in 1854. The town site was donated by W. Balch. It was named by Abe Onstott, first sheriff of Johnson County, in honor of a brave Spanish officer by the name of Alvarado.
Joshua, located eight miles north of Cleburne, on the Santa Fe Railway, is a town of about 1,500 inhabitants.
Watts Chapel Methodist Church and Cemetery. The rural Watts Chapel community is named for the family of Nathaniel Franklin Watts (1851-1919), who settled in this area of Johnson County in 1872.
Burleson, situated in the north edge of the county, near the Tarrant County line, enjoys fine school facilities and has two good banks. – History of Texas, 1922, by W. Barrett Travis.
Venus, formerly known as Gossip, is on State Highway 67 some twenty miles east of Cleburne in eastern Johnson County.
First Presbyterian Church Building. The Rev. Donald Frazier and nine charter members organized the First Presbyterian Church of Anson in 1882. This structure, the congregation’s third sanctuary, was built in 1929.
Location : Comfort, Texas Comfort, TX 29° 58′ 3.774″ N, 98° 54′ 18.1224″ W
London, also known as London Town, is a farming community on U.S. Highway 377 about eighteen miles northeast of Junction in northeastern Kimble County.
Telegraph is on U.S. Highway 377 thirteen miles southwest of Junction in southwestern Kimble County.
Junction, the county seat of Kimble County, is on U.S. Highway 83 ninety-eight miles southeast of San Angelo. It is named for its location at the confluence of the North and South Llano rivers.
Segovia is on Intrstate Highway 10 eleven miles southeast of Junction in eastern Kimble County.
Kimbleville was located on the Llano River northwest of Junction.
South Camp, a school community in the southern part of the Four Sixes Ranch (6666 Ranch) in King County, was one of four line camps established to look after the ranch operations of the 208,000-acre spread.
Benjamin, the county seat, has been the home of three Knox County Courthouses.
Began in 1913 as a cattle-shipping point on Pecos and Northern Texas Railroad. Served the 300,000-acre Spring Lake Ranch, which was established in 1902 by W.E.
Moravia School. Many Czech and German immigrants settled in this area of South Texas in the 1870s. Moravia was a Czech farming community that included homes, a Catholic church, businesses, and a school.
Old Sweet Home. The Sweet Home community was originally settled during the mid-1800s. In 1852, a post office was established with Captain J.A. York as postmaster.
Vienna is on Farm Road 530 near the Navidad River ten miles east of Hallettsville in southeastern Lavaca County.
Radhost School. Settlers of the community of Radhost, many of whom were immigrants from Czechoslovakia, funded the building of a school which opened in 1873.
Site of Velehrad School. The Velehrad community was settled in the 1850s; the settlement was named Velehrad, or "Big Castle" for the Czech city of that name.
Half Moon. The community of Half Moon was first mentioned in a 1689 account from Gov. Alonso de Leon’s Expedition when the group encountered a Native American tribe that called Half Moon their home.
Location : Hallettsville, TX 29° 26' 37.8708" N, 96° 56' 27.9348" W
Shiner. Originated as German-Czech community of Half Moon, located west of present town. When the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad came through in 1887.
Hackberry is on Farm Road 532 eleven miles northeast of Hallettsville in northeastern Lavaca County.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Giddings Texas – 1885, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1912, 1921. Scroll down the page until you see Giddings listed. Several sheets for each date.
Leona is at the intersection of Farm Road 977, State Highway 75, and Interstate Highway 45, six miles south of Centerville in Leon County.
Jewett is on State Highway 79, Farm Road 39, and the Missouri Pacific line near its intersection with that of the Burlington Northern, some twelve miles northwest of Centerville in northwestern Leon County.
Shiloh is a rural community located on Farm Road 542 about twenty-two miles northeast of Centerville, about eleven miles south of Oakwood, Texas and two miles west of the Trinity River in northeastern Leon County.
Fort Boggy. Pioneers who settled in this area bout 1840 included members of the Middleton, Byrns, Staley, Erwin, Jones, Capp, Bloodworth, Philpott, Easton, Howell, and Hinton families. Nearby Kichai and Kickapoo Indian camps afforded these early settlers little sense of security.
First Baptist Church of Buffalo. First Baptist Church of Buffalo In 1877, when Buffalo was a young railroad town, 15 people met at the Buffalo Academy and formed a Baptist congregation.
First Leon County Courthouse, 1846, Leona - Leon County was created in 1846. Upon the organization of the county, the town of Leona, located near the southern county line, became the county seat.
Centerville, the county seat of Leon County, was so named because it is near the geographic center of the county.
Redland (sometimes spelled Red Land) is a small rural community located on State Highway 7 about four miles west of Centerville in central Leon County.
Red Branch is a community on Farm Road 831 six miles southwest of Oakwood in northeastern Leon County.
Normangee is at the intersection of Farm Roads 39 and 3 and the Old San Antonio Road, on the Burlington Northern Railroad and the Madison county line seventeen miles southwest of Centerville in southwest Leon County.
Concord Missionary Baptist Church. The historic Concord Missionary Baptist Church was organized on April 21, 1855 by pioneer settlers prior to the establishment of the community of Concord.
Oletha is located ten miles east of Thornton on Farm roads 1246 and 937 in southeastern Limestone County.
Tehuacana. Located at one of highest points (altitude 661 ft.) between Dallas and Houston. First noted in history by Philip Nolan's trading expedition, 1797.
Thornton Schools. Thornton was established in 1871 by the Texas Central Railroad and had a post office by 1873. By 1880, the town had approximately 200 residents and three churches, as well as several businesses and a Masonic lodge.
Ebenezer Baptist Church and Cemetery. The Ebenezer Baptist Church was organized in 1865 to serve the Head's Prairie and Headsville communities.
First Baptist Church of Groesbeck. When Groesbeck was founded in 1871, on Houston & Texas Central Railroad, Old Springfield (5 mi. NW) was bypassed. Some Baptists from the church founded there in 1846 moved.
