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14612 Callisburg United Methodist Church corner of Cole and Church streets Callisburg founder Samuel Callis, an area blacksmith, was a Methodist who is thought to have been an original member of the Callisburg congregation ... 3709 City Hall-Fire Station, Old Intersection of Dixon and Pecan Streets, Gainesville. Erected 1884. First floor was fire station, with ladder truck, hose wagons and horse stalls. Insignia for the three fire companies appear above doors. ... 23377 Civil War Dissent In North Texas marker pending marker pending 15979 Clark Cemetery ntersection CR220 & Clark Road; 6-7 miles south of Gainesville, TX on FM 362; left (east) on CR220 for 2 miles; left at intersection of CR220 and Clark Rd. Iron gate is at entrance of cemetery road. This burial ground was established by the Hatcher family and others in the 1850s. By the Civil War, it became known as Clark Cemetery, named for ... 4193 Clark, Randolph Lee (1871-1941) 1525 West California, on campus of North Central Texas College, Cooke County Campus (next to flag poles). A native of Fort Worth, Randolph Lee Clark worked as a cowboy on the XIT Ranch as a young man. After graduating from Add-Ran Christian University, ... 1053 Cooke County East of Elm Fork Bridge on SH 51, in Moffett Park, Gainesville. Created March 20, 1848. Organized March 10, 1849. Named in honor of William G. Cooke 1808-1847. Captain of the "New Orleans Greys," 1835; Assistant ... 1055 Cooke County Courthouse east side of Cooke County Courthouse, facing S. Dixon St. Settlement of the area now known as Cooke County began in late 1845. The county was created by the State Legislature in 1848 and named for William ... 12599 Cooke County Free Library 201 S. Denton St. In 1913, city librarian Lillian Gunter (1870-1926) and the XLI club (a local women's literary society) secured a grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation ... 23946 Cooke County Poor Farm 2718 W. Hwy 82 As part of a county effort to improve the lives of its rapidly growing population, on April 23, 1880, Cooke County Judge J.P. Hall purchased 100 ... 1054 Cooke County, C.S.A./2nd Frontier Regiment Moffett Park, north side of W. California Street, across from Leonard Park entrance Military, defense center in Civil War. Cooke voted 231 to 137 anti-secession, yet nine military units served Confederacy from here. In constant danger ...

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17486 G. H. Ragsdale front of Fairview Cemetery -- marker faces Fair Avenue, and is very close to the western fence (April 1, 1846 - March 25, 1895) Tennessee native George Henry Ragsdale came to Cooke County in 1867. He was elected to three terms as county surveyor. ... 2097 Gainesville From Gainesville take US 82 about 5 miles east to roadside park, north side of highway. Founded 1850. Named for Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, who in 1836 aided Republic of Texas. Military supply headquarters during Civil War. Important in defense ... 2098 Gainesville Community Circus 101 South Culberson (next to Chamber of Commerce), Gainesville. Editor A. Morton Smith (1903-57) organized and promoted this show after a circus parody by the town's little theater group in 1930 revealed many ... 12573 Gainesville Junior College on campus in front of the library With support from the Kiwanis Club and the Parent-Teacher Association, Randolph Lee Clark (1871-1941) began promoting the idea of a junior college ... 12581 Gainesville National Bank at northeast corner of bank building In this block on October 21, 1882, prominent citizens and landowners J. M. Lindsay and C. C. Hemming founded Gainesville National Bank (GNB). Over ... 20010 Gainesville State School Gainesville State School, N side FM 678, 1.0 mi. E of FM 3092. Marker is at entrance. Authorized by the Thirty-Third Texas Legislature in 1913, the Texas State Training School for Girls opened on 160 acres east of Gainesville in ... 13613 Gainesville-Fort Sill Road 605 E California The U.S. Cavalry constructed roads to improve logistical routes in the west during the 19th century. Henry O. Flipper, the first African American ...

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4480 Saint Paul's Church Intersection of California and Jefferson Streets, Gainesville. Founded May 10, 1877. Bishop A.C. Garrett laid cornerstone May 12, 1884, on land given by Judge J. M. Lindsay, civic leader. English Gothic architecture. ... 5077 Saint Peter's Catholic Church Intersection of Ash and Main, Lindsay. Organized 1892. Present church was erected in 1918 to replace structure destroyed by cyclone. Lindsay settlers, Germans whose lives centered in the ... 17344 Salem Community Well 12 ft. north of CR 222 approximately 0.2 mile east of FM 3164 about 13 miles southeast of Gainesville HAND DUG BY CITIZENS IN THE LATE 1800s, THE WELL WAS A GATHERING PLACE FOR THE SALEM (LATER SHADY GROVE) COMMUNITY. P.G. DOTSON DIRECTED THE WORK ... 14931 Sam Callis Cemetery Callisburg Established 1867 Historic Texas Cemetery – 2007 4580 Santa Fe Passenger Depot Amtrak Station and Museum at Santa Fe Depot, E side of Depot Lane between Elm and California streets. By the end of the 19th Century Gainesville was established as one of the state's major rail centers. This depot was built about 1902 to handle the ... 4743 Site of Camp Howze FM 1202, S side, 0.2 mi. W of I-35 frontage road southbound. The site is another one mile west of the marker on FM 1202. (One mile west) In operation from 1942 to 1946, Camp Howze served as an infantry training facility during World War II. It was named for General ... 17487 Sivells Bend United Methodist Church CR 437 at FM1201 This congregation formed in 1868 as Sivells Bend Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Brothers William W. and Addison Y. Gunter conveyed two acres ... 11709 Spring Creek Cemetery 7 miles south of Gainesville on IH-35, then 2 miles west on Spring Creek Road The earliest burial on this site is that of infant Mary C. Underwood, who died in 1875. Another infant, identified only as "Newton's child," was ...