Cooke County, Texas

Historical Markers in Valley View, Texas

Valley View has 3 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Cooke County. The marker list includes records dating to 1968. 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.

What you will find in Valley View

  • Churches, cemeteries, and community institutions
  • Railroad, trail, and transportation history
  • Ranching, farming, and frontier settlement
  • Military, battle, and Texas Revolution sites
  • Downtown architecture, homes, and businesses

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Kiowa Raid of 1868 (SW Part of County) · 1968

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…

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Valley View · 2007

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…

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Indian Creek Cemetery · 2010

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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