Historical Markers in Weatherford, Texas

Colonel Alfred G. Cooper · 1936

Seminole Florida War, 1836. Captain in Mexican War, 1846. Lt. Colonel Confederate Army, 1862. Born in Tennessee, June 22, 1817. Died February 28, 1883. (1936)

Isaac Parker · 1936

To the memory of Isaac Parker pioneer, soldier and law maker. Born April 7, 1793 in Elbert County, Georgia. Came to Texas in 1833. Served in Elisha Clapp's Company in 1836. Member of Congress of the Republic of Texas,…

Samuel Joseph Redgate · 1936

Born in England, 1800 Member of Legislature, 1858-1861 Died May 20, 1893 Jane Yergins Jordt Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yergins Wife of H. E. Jordt Born in what is now Oklahoma August 20, 1836 Died April 8, 1896 In Memory…

The Double Log Cabin · 1936

At Holland's Lake * A monument to the pioneers of Parker County * The east room with bullet scarred walls shows where George McCleskey was killed by Indians in 1873 * The west room was Dan Waggoner's headquarters ranch…

Santa Fe Depot · 1962

Application The Texas Historical Building Medallion enclosed.

Parker County, C.S.A. · 1964

Part of a colonial grant to S.M. Williams and Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas, but with no permanent settlers before 1850, this county was created in 1855 and named for Isaac Parker, its legislative sponsor. By 1860…

Weatherford · 1964

Founded 1856. Named for Jefferson Weatherford, state senator and a confederate soldier. Frontier people found protection here from constant Indian threat during Civil War. Long the only town between Fort Worth and El…

Weatherford College Old Main Building · 1964

This wing, Old Weatherford Masonic Institute, always has been part of a school. Masons en route to lay the cornerstone, July 5, 1869, were delayed by a skirmish with Indians. Incorporated into main building of…

Parker County Courthouse · 1965

Scene of many noted trials. Built 1884-86. Cost $55,555.55. Fourth courthouse in history of county, organized 1856. An oak on Fort Belknap Road was court site that year. In this building practiced S.W.T. Lanham, who was…

R. W. Kindel House · 1975

Druggist R.W. Kindel (1847-1931) built this Second Empire-style Victorian home about 1881. The 20-inch-thick native stone walls were topped by a concave mansard roof. A coal furnace in the cellar with vents leading into…

Woolfolk-McCall House · 1975

One of the first brick homes in Weatherford, this structure was begun in late 1860s and occupied by Joseph A. Woolfolk (1836-1918), one of two attorneys who defended Indian Chiefs Satanta and Big Tree, charged in 1871…

Soldier Spring Park · 1976

Confederate soldiers are said to have camped here in the 1860s because of the inviting spring. In 1890, veterans used the site for their 25th reunion. During the next year, 55 acres were set aside as "Soldier Spring…

Oliver Loving · 1977

Founder of three major cattle trails, Oliver Loving came from Kentucky to Texas in 1845 and to Parker County about 1855. During the Civil War (1861-65), he supplied beef to Confederate forces. With Charles Goodnight as…

Governor S.W.T. Lanham · 1978

(July 4, 1846 - July 29, 1908) A South Carolinian, Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham volunteered at age 15 and fought 1861-65 in the Civil War. In 1866 he married Sarah Beona Meng and moved to Texas. The Lanhams taught…

Porter Cemetery · 1978

Robert Scott Porter (1795-1877), first Parker County judge, dedicated this land near his cabin as a family cemetery in 1867 after the death of his 3-year-old granddaughter Syrene E. Newberry. Judge Porter's grandson…

First United Methodist Church of Weatherford · 1979

Organized in 1857, this congregation built a meetinghouse in 1867 at Walnut and Church Street. In 1886 a tornado destroyed the first sanctuary. This structure was begun three years later under the leadership of the…

First National Bank of Weatherford · 1981

Founded in 1880, this is the fifth oldest federally chartered bank operating in Texas. It was started under the direction of Samuel H. Milliken (1846-1931), a Parker County industrialist and civic leader and a founder…

Shaw House · 1982

Tennessee native Thomas J. Shaw (1819-1904), a farmer, rancher, and carpenter, migrated to Parker County in 1854. Two years later he built the original log room of the this house. He and his wife Louisa Ann (Long)…

Isaac Parker · 1986

(Apr. 7, 1793 - Apr. 14, 1883) A native of Georgia, Isaac Parker came to Texas in 1833 as part of the pioneer family that built Ft. Parker in Limestone County. He fought in the Texas Revolution and served in the…

Parker County Poor Farm and Cemetery · 1986

Created in 1883, a farm near this site housed the county's indigent citizens. Farm residents and some county convicts worked to grow crops and raise livestock. Although entire families were once housed at the farm, by…

Texas Pythian Home · 1986

The Texas Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias considered building a home for dependent widows and children as early as 1886. In 1897 the Grand Lodge Convention started a fund to establish such a home. Both the Knights…

Thomas C. Snailum · 1986

A native of England, Thomas C. Snailum came to Texas in 1834, settling in Bastrop. He enlisted in the Texas Army in 1836, served during the Texas Revolution, and settled in Nacogdoches. After the war in 1840 Snailum…

Wright Cemetery · 1986

Located on land given by early settler L.F. Wright for a Union Church and School in 1874, this cemetery is one of the few remaining physical reminders of the Wright Community. Although L.F. Wright and his wife are not…

1933 Weatherford City Hall · 1987

The construction of this city hall created many jobs for the unemployed in Weatherford during the hard times of the Great Depression. Weatherford citizens passed a bond election to provide funds for a new city hall and…

Citizens National Bank · 1988

James Robertson (J.R.) Couts (1833-1904), a native of Tennessee, brought his family to Texas in 1858. Soon after the end of the Civil War, in which he served with a Texas frontier guard unit, Couts embarked on a long…

Weatherford Post Office · 1988

A postal station was first established in Weatherford in 1856. Facilities were located in several early buildings before this structure was completed in 1914. Judge J.M. Richards was postmaster at the time. Built on the…

Holland, Gustavus Adolphus · 1989

Bose Ikard · 1990

(July 1834 - January 4, 1929) Born a slave in Mississippi, Bose Ikard came to Texas as a child with the family of his owner, Dr. Milton L. Ikard. He remained as an employee of Dr. Ikard following his emancipation, but…

Central Christian Church · 1990

This congregation was founded in 1894 by sixty-five former members of the First Christian Church (now South Main Church of Christ). Known in its early years as Central Church of Christ or Central Christian Church, the…

James Robertson Couts · 1990

(1833-1904) A native of Tennessee and a veteran of the Civil War, James Robertson Couts brought his family to Parker County in the mid-1860s. With proceeds from a cattle drive to California, he opened a bank in…

Merchants and Farmers State Bank · 1990

Chartered on January 22, 1889, as the Merchants and Farmers National Bank of Weatherford, this institution opened for business on March 15, 1889, with capital of $100,000. In 1909 the bank's directors voted to apply for…

Spring Creek Community · 1990

Settlement of this area of Parker County began in 1854, with the arrival of the T.J. Shaw family from Tennessee. They built a log cabin on the south branch of Spring Creek and the community which built up in the area…

Old City Greenwood Cemetery · 1996

This cemetery was formally established by the Weatherford town council in 1863 when lots were surveyed and the exact cemetery location was staked. Previous interments were made in the unmarked streets of the town. The…

Walker Bend Community and Cemetery · 1996

Located in Parker County on a bend in the Brazos River, the Walker Bend Community was named for W.J. Walker (1821-1901) who settled in this area in the 1860's. By 1884 settlers established the Walker Bend School that…

All Saints' Episcopal Church · 1998

Bishop Alexander C. Garrett of Dallas visited Weatherford in June 1875. He organized a mission church here the following February with five communicants. The congregation called the Rev. Edwin Wickens, then serving at a…

Newberry Commuinity · 1999

Robert S. and Nancy Ann Porter settled on the fertile land in this area in 1855. Robert Porter became the first county judge for the newly organized Parker County the following year. Among their early neighbors were the…

Baker Community · 2002

Baker Community Settlement in this part of Parker County began in earnest in the 1850s and the county was formally established in 1855. Josiah and Nancy Catherine "Kate" Baker, their four children, Josiah's parents and…

Parsons Station · 2006

For more than 100 years, this was the site of the Parsons community, which developed around the homestead and ranch of Amsley Parsons, who came to the area with his family in 1854. Another early settler was Sam B.…

Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham · 2006

S.W.T. Lanham was born on July 4, 1846 to James and Louisa (Tucker) Lanham in South Carolina. He joined the Confederate Army in 1861, serving in the Third South Carolina Infantry, and was wounded at the Battle of…

Greenwood Community · 2007

Greenwood formed by the 1880s on land sold to T.D. Wythe and W.J. Fain, developing as a farming community. There were a number of vital institutions here, including the general store owned by Millard Cleveland, a…

Twentieth Century Club · 2010

ON FEBRUARY 8, 1900, A GROUP OF TWENTY-NINE WEATHERFORD WOMEN ORGANIZED THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB. THE CLUB WAS FEDERATED AS AN AFFILIATE OF THE TEXAS FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS LATER THAT YEAR. SINCE ITS INCEPTION,…

Chandor Gardens · 2011

Portrait painter Douglas Chandor began designs for his home and garden in 1934. Originally called White Shadows, the garden was renamed Chandor Gardens by his wife, Ina, after her husband's death in 1953. Carved from a…

First Baptist Church · 2011

ORIGINALLY CALLED UNITED MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST AT WEATHERFORD, THIS CHURCH ORGANIZED IN 1856 UNDER REVERENDS NOAH T. BYARS, J.C. POWERS AND JOHN TURNER. A SANCTUARY WAS COMPLETED IN 1873 ON THE CORNER OF…

Fred Rider Cotten · 2011

(1894-1974) Fred Rider Cotten was born to James Taylor and Sarah Ida (Rider) Cotten in Weatherford. In 1917, he completed a law degree at the Univ. of Texas. After returning to his hometown with his wife, Mary Virginia…

Clark Cemetery · 2012

CLARK CEMETERY A COMMON BURIAL GROUND FOR EARLY PIONEER SETTLERS WHO CAMPED ALONG THE CLEAR FORK OF THE TRINITY RIVER, THE CLARK CEMETERY CONSISTS OF MANY BURIAL SITES FROM THE 1830s. IN DECEMBER OF 1853, REVEREND JOHN…

Franco-Texan Land Company Building · 2012

In the late 19th century, this building was a center for political and economic life for the town of Weatherford and for Parker County. It was built around 1870. James Robertson Couts and John A. Fain established the…

Grace First Presbyterian Church · 2012

Three congregations, the earliest founded in 1859, joined forces in Parker County to create Grace First Presbyterian Church. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the oldest of the three congregations, focused on…

James Claude Wright House · 2012

On September 20, 1898, Robert P. Lowe and his wife purchased the property at this site. The commonly held belief is that the house was built by Robert Lowe, who retired from Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1894 and settled…

Tucker House · 2012

MOSES TUCKER (1833-1890) CAME TO TEXAS FROM KENTUCKY WITH HIS TWIN BROTHER, AARON, IN 1853. A LOG CABIN WAS BUILT ON THIS LAND. AFTER SERVING IN THE CIVIL WAR, TUCKER RETURNED TO PARKER COUNTY AND TO HIS WIFE, MARTHA…

J. J. Hamilton Log Cabin · 2015

By Affidavit in 1855, J.J. Hamilton (1805-1890) settled land in this area and was one of the petitioners in the creation of Parker County. In 1856, he purchased two town lots on the southwest corner of East Church and…

Battern Cemetery · 2017

Henry Hill Battern, a native of Virginia, migrated to Parker county with his family around 1860. He purchased 160 acres of property including this one-acre cemetery and established a family farm. Shortly after the move,…

Campbell Memorial Hospital · 2017

In the early twentieth century, medical care in Parker County was restricted to practices of individual doctors. That changed in 1924, when Dr. E.D. Fyke purchased the twenty-eight room G.M. Bowie family home in the 600…

Harmony Cemetery · 2017

Originally conceived as a gathering place for the Harmony community, the Harmony Cemetery was established when Mary Green (1802-1869), mother to Rufus S. Green, a Civil War veteran, was buried here. Rufus and his wife,…

Mount Pleasant Colored School · 2018

Dubellette St. is also called Raymond George Way

Bud Clark Cemetery · 2019