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1218 Dickens Cemetery Dickens Cemetery (SH 114 to Ragan to Cemetery Road) The only cemetery to serve the town of Dickens. This graveyard began in 1891, the same year the town was founded. Mrs. C. F. Jones, wife of pioneer ... 1219 Dickens County Dickens County Courthouse grounds, north side facing US 82/SH 114 Formed from Young and Bexar territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized April 15, 1903. Dickens City, County Seat. 1220 Dickens County Courthouse Courthouse Square, Hwy. 82, Dickens (marker is inside of courthouse) -- 11718 Dickens Springs Dickens Springs Park, US 82/SH 114, north side between Ragan and Wilson streets At one time, water covered this area. Sandstone, the prominent rock around this site, is porous, causing exposed strata at canyon rims to form a ...

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12655 Espuela 3 mi. S of Dickens on SH 70, then 3 mi. W on FM 1868 In 1870, J.H. Parrish built a dugout on the west bank of Duck Creek a half-mile southeast of this site. He farmed and established a small store serving ...

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2043 In Memory Of Private Gregg, William Max, W. H. Kilpatrick Spur Cemetery, local road of Highway 70, .25 miles east of Spur city limits In Memory Of Private Gregg, William Max, W. H. Kilpatrick and other soldiers who met death in this region while serving under General R. S. MacKenzie, ...

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14208 Lisenby-Campbell House 109 W. Hill Street This home was first owned by rancher George Edward Lisenby and his wife, Mattie Belle Holland, who bought it in 1916. They sold it in 1922 to William ...

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12634 Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr. 3 mi. S of McAdoo on US 82, west of FM 264 BORN IN HOPKINS COUNTY IN EAST TEXAS, MARSHALL CLINTON FORMBY, JR., MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO McADOO (3 MI. N) WHEN HE WAS FIVE YEARS OLD AND SPENT ... 12739 Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr. McAdoo Cemetery, Sec B, Row P, Plot 15 Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr. (APR. 12, 1911 - DEC. 27, 1984) Marshall Formby moved with his family from Hopkins County, Texas, to McAdoo at the age ...

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4041 Pitchfork Ranch S side of US 82, about 17 mi. E of Dickens at ranch headquarters on private property Irish-born, Jerry Savage established an open range ranch at this site about 1879. In 1881, St. Louis businessman Eugene F. Williams and Texas cattleman ...

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14454 Red Mud Cemetery from Spur, SW on FM 261 to CR 496 no text (HTC medallion)

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4721 Site of Anderson's Fort or Soldier's Mound From Spur, take Highway 70 north, about 6 miles Here behind extensive breastworks Major Thomas M. Anderson, Tenth U. S. Infantry, maintained a supply camp for the Cavalry under General Ranald S. ...

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5245 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Spur former station site, W side of FM 2794, 0.3 mi. W of FM 836 Authorized by the Texas Legislature in 1909, seven agricultural experiment stations were established in the state. Providing facilities for agricultural ...