Lipscomb County, Texas
Lipscomb has 7 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Lipscomb County. The marker list includes records dating to 1968. Common marker themes include courthouse and civic history, churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history. 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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Established, 1886, by settlers hoping to benefit from proposed Santa Fe Railroad in Panhandle. Post office was opened in 1886; Lipscomb Town Company sold land for $3 an acre in 1887. In first month, seven businesses…
View on map ↗Established in 1886 and organized the following year with Lipscomb as county seat, Lipscomb County was named for Abner S. Lipscomb, an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court in the 1840s-1850s. A one-story wood…
View on map ↗Fairview Cemetery Established 1924 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004
View on map ↗The Texas Legislature created Lipscomb County in 1876, naming it for early Texas Statesman Abner Lipscomb. Appoximately ten years later, J.W. Arthur settled in this vicinity and built a wood and sod structure that he…
View on map ↗Early homesteaders in Lipscomb County were russians of German descent. These included Jacob M. And Amalia Koch, who were members of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, established by the German Russian settlers in…
View on map ↗Lipscomb Union Church has served the residents of this community since the early 1900s. J.W. Arthur established the town of Lipscomb in 1886, and by the next year it was the county seat. Lipscomb soon boasted several…
View on map ↗Around 1886, the town of Lipscomb was established by J.H. Arthur who built a store and post office out of cottonwood logs. As more people moved to the area, the need for a school arose and, on July 16, 1887, a special…
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