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489 Brandt Building 201 Main St. This frame commercial building with decorative sheet metal siding was constructed in 1918. D. E. Dillow built the structure for the mercantile partnership ... 15930 Brick Streets of Spearman SH 207 at Main Street

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1238 Dodge City-Tascosa Trail from Spearman take SH 15/207 about 6.5 miles west --

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17096 Gruver Cemetery Gruver, FM 278, 2 miles east of intersection SH 15 & SH 136 GRUVER CEMETERY IN 1907, JOSEPH HEZKIAH GRUVER (1863-1962), HIS WIFE, ADDIE REED GRUVER, AND THEIR SON, LAWRENCE, MOVED FROM MISSOURI AND SETTLED ...

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2365 Hansford Cemetery from Spearman take SH 15/207 about 6 miles to cemetery First burial ground set aside in this county. Earliest grave (1890) was that of Mrs. Alfie P. Magee, wife of the first sheriff. Also, buried here: ... 2366 Hansford County Hansford County Courthouse grounds, at NW entrance facing NW Court St. Formed form Young and Bexar territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized March 11, 1889. Named in honor of John M. Hansford. Came to Texas in ... 2367 Hansford County Sheriff Robert E. (Bob) Martin Hansford County Courthouse grounds, Main at Court (1868 - 1911) Killed while assisting United States marshal making arrest in boundary line dispute in the northwestern part of county. Like many frontier ...

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3086 Lindberghs Land at Spearman from Spearman take SH 207 south about 0.4 mile to marker At ten minutes before 11:00 a.m. on Monday, September 24, 1934, a small monocoupe airplane landed in a pasture about 1/4 mile west of this site. ...

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3727 Old Farwell from Gruver take S.H. 15, about 2 miles southeast Established 1886 about 1/2 mile northeast of this site. Intended to be county seat of Hansford County, created 1876, organized in 1889. Lost election ...

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4581 Santa Fe Railroad Stationmaster's House 30 S. Townsend When Spearman was founded on a branch of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1920, this cottage was built for the stationmaster. As local agent for the railroad, ... 4752 Site of Cator Buffalo Camp from Gruver take SH 136, south about 9 miles to rest stop Established by James H. and Bob Cator in the spring of 1872 while hunting buffalo in the fall of 1875. The camp became a trading post known as Zulu. ... 14068 Site of Hansford County Courthouse Hansford Cemetery 4867 Site of Old Zulu Stockade 4 mi. N of Morse on SH 136, then 1 mi. W on FM 520 In 1875, a large, two-room pole building furnished with staple groceries and ammunition became the first trading post in Texas above the Canadian ... 5004 Spearman SH 207 SW Founded 1917; incorporated 1921. Named for Thomas C. Spearman, a vice-president and head of the Land Department of the Santa Fe Railway. The Santa ...

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3857 The Oslo Community From Gruver take S.H. 136 about 6 miles north; head west on F.M. 2535 about 6 miles; turn north on F.M. 1262, continue for 5 miles, then turn west on F.M. 2349 to Oslo Community. Marker is between Oslo Lutheran Church and Oslo Cemetery. In 1908 Anders L. Mordt, a native of Norway, secured form R. M. Thomson and R. T. Anderson the sales rights to 100 sections of Hansford County land ...