Captain James Cunningham Home · 1962
1855. Lumber hauled from Waco by ox wagon. Local stone. Place of county's first wedding. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965
View on map ↗Comanche County, Texas
Comanche vicinity has 7 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Comanche County. The marker list includes records dating to 1962. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement. Use this page to preview the markers, then open RoadHistorical on your drive to see nearby stops on the map, listen to narration, and save the places you want to visit.
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1855. Lumber hauled from Waco by ox wagon. Local stone. Place of county's first wedding. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965
View on map ↗One of the first settlements in Comanche County; founded in 1851 by John A. McGuire. The first public building here was a stockade that enclosed several log cabins. Named "Double Pens" for its double walls, it was a…
View on map ↗Settled 1874 by W. A. Gill (1843-1889), son of W. S. Gill, hero of Battle of San Jacinto. W. A. fought in Civil War and was a Captain in the Texas Rangers. His sons E. V. and Fleet lived here for many years. Remains in…
View on map ↗Second oldest Missionary Baptist church in county. Organized by C. S. Fritts, J. M. Lumpkin, Dennis O'Brian, Sarah Fritts, Jane O'Brian, Sarah Lumpkin, Stacy Martin and Mary E. Hardin, August 2, 1873, at Zion Hill…
View on map ↗Organized under a brush arbor, with 21 charter members, Oct. 16, 1892. First pastor, F. M. Herring, and E. M. Moore, Jesse Cunningham and C. C. McCurdy composed the presbytery. Will Dewitt gave land, Nov. 26, 1892, on…
View on map ↗When 14-year-old Charles Farley died in Feb. 1878, his parents buried him near their farmhouse, as this frontier locality had no cemetery at the time. Three months later Fannie Nichols (1875-78) died and was buried…
View on map ↗Pioneer settlers of this area of Comanche County arrived in the mid-1850s and established a town named for the nearby South Leon River. P.W. Brewer set aside land for a cemetery and church in 1872. Although earlier…
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