Cooke County, Texas
Valley View is home to 3 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.
On Jan. 5-6, 1868, Chief Big Tree and 150 to 200 Kiowas raided Willa Walla Valley, Clear Creek and Blocker Creek. Burned homes; killed 13 people; scalped one woman alive. Captured 10 women and children; 3 escaped, 2…
View on map ↗In 1870, Captain L.W. Lee and his wife Mary Ann (Fryer) came from Missouri to a tall grass prairie overlooking a valley. Several friends from Missouri soon arrived, and by 1872 the settlers founded the town of Valley…
View on map ↗INDIAN CREEK CEMETERY TEN-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM J. BRAY WAS BURIED ON THIS PROPERTY IN 1867. ELEVEN YEARS LATER, HIS PARENTS, A.P. AND ARABELLA BRAY, DEEDED ONE ACRE TO ESTABLISH A CEMETERY. IN 1910, ELIJAH WILLIAM AND MARY…
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