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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 ...
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Brick Streets of Spearman
SH 207 at Main Street
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Dodge City-Tascosa Trail
from Spearman take SH 15/207 about 6.5 miles west
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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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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: ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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, ...
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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. ...
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Site of Hansford County Courthouse
Hansford Cemetery
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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 ...
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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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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 ...