Hood County, Texas
Tolar is home to 9 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
One of earliest masonry homes in area; built in view of indian caucus site, Comanche Peak. John W. Bull (1818-98), born in Tennessee, came to Texas in 1853; preempted land here, 1861; in Jan. 1865 participated in the…
View on map ↗Residents of the community known as The Colony came to Hood County with their white southern owners as early as the 1850s. After emancipation they began to settle in this area, and many acquired land under a state law…
View on map ↗Glenn Cemetery, in Hood County, was established to serve residents of Bluff Dale, an Erath County community west of this site. Andrew Jackson Glenn, for whom the burial ground is named, donated land for cemetery use in…
View on map ↗Antioch, formerly an active farming community, is today a rural locale of western Hood County. The last Indian fight in the county, called Point of the Timbers or Battle of Lookout Point, occurred in this vicinity in…
View on map ↗Tabernacles such as this one once served an important function in communities throughout Texas and the southern United States. Prior to the advent of air conditioning, a place to comfortably hold outdoor gatherings was…
View on map ↗The Stroud Creek community developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s due to post-Civil War migration, land grants, a nearby stagecoach line, and cessation of area raids by Native Americans. Stroud Creek settlers began…
View on map ↗The Panter Branch School (also spelled Painter Branch), Hood County School District No. 7, was in operation by 1898 on a 25-acre plot of land on Hill City Highway south of Tolar. The two-room schoolhouse had two…
View on map ↗Located in a largely agricultural area of farmers and ranchers, the Rock Church community was settled by pioneers in the 1850s, including the Caraway, Cowan, Jackson, Jones, Pate, Baker and Wood families. Jesse Caraway…
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