Wilbarger County, Texas

Historical Markers in Doan's Community, Texas

Doan's Community has 3 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Wilbarger County. The marker list includes records dating to 1936. Common marker themes include railroad, trail, and transportation history, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement, downtown architecture, homes, and businesses. 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.

What you will find in Doan's Community

  • Railroad, trail, and transportation history
  • Ranching, farming, and frontier settlement
  • Downtown architecture, homes, and businesses

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Doan's Crossing on Red River · 1936

By herds on the Western Texas-Kansas Trail, 1876-1895, six million cattle and horses crossed here. "You don't need much monument if the cause is good. It's only these monuments that are for no reason at all that has to…

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Doans' Adobe Building · 1962

Corwin F. Doan (1848-1929) settled here on Red River in 1878; erected this house in 1881. In his early picket store and later, permanent building, he had large stocks of goods to supply the cowboys who annually drove…

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Doan's Crossing · 1993

A major route for cattle drives known primarily as the Western Trail developed from far South Texas to Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s. About 1876, trail drivers along the route began crossing the Red River near this…

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