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Davis House
513 Pine Street -Sweetwater
Built in 1916 by Walter Wright Davis (1879-1933) and his wife Florence Weathers Davis (1880-1968), this house represents a transition from a craftsman ...
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First Baptist Church of Sweetwater
Corner of 3rd & Elm Streets, Sweetwater Marker reported missing 2.2023.
Organized on December 11, 1881, by the Reverend Peter Turner (1812-1892), a native of England, this church served settlers of the pioneer railroad ...
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Herefords in Sweetwater
Fairgrounds, 1 mile north of Nolan County Courthouse -Sweetwater
Organized 1922, the Sweetwater Hereford Breeders Association and Auction Sale (now Sweetwater Area Hereford Association) is considered Texas' third ...
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I.M. (Mose) and Margaret Newman House
309 Ragland
Ira Mose Newman, born in 1887 to a prominent Nolan County ranching family, was a leading area businessman, with interests including real estate and ...
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J.E. and Esther Davis House
401 N. State Hwy 70
In 1916, John Barton “J.B.” Wimberley purchased land from the Orient Land Company and soon after built a frame house. Rancher and mercantile store ...
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Nolan County
Courthouse Square, Broadway Street, Sweetwater
Nomadic Indians crossed this region before Anglo-American pioneers arrived here in the 1870's. The first settlers were buffalo hunters such as I.S. ...
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Nolan County
1.8 mi. E. of Sweetwater on US Hwy 80/84
Nolan County, formed from Young and Bexar Territories. Created August 21, 1876, organized January 10, 1881. Named in honor of Philip Nolan, pioneer ...
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R.A. Ragland House
610 East 3rd Street, Sweetwater (Pioneer Museum)
In 1882 R.A. Ragland (1858-1938) came to Sweetwater as one of the town's first lawyers. He served as city commissioner, school board member and county ...
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Ragland Building
113-115-117 E. 3rd Street, Sweetwater
Community leader R.A. Ragland (1858-1938) had this structure erected in 1901 as a one-story building with a random pattern of hand-hewed limestone. ...
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Roscoe Cemetery
Roscoe
One of first settlers in Roscoe (when it was called Vista) was rancher-wheat grower W. J. Turner, who purchased cemetery site for burial of his brother-in-law, ...
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Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railway
In Memorial Park on the northeast corner of Cypress Street and Broadway, just off TxDOT right of way.
The Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railway was one of the country’s most successful short-line railroads. Chartered on Oct. 1, 1906, by General F. W. James ...
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S.D. Myres
309 Oak Street, Sweetwater
Samuel Dale Myres began his career as an apprentice saddle-maker in Cleburne. He moved to Sweetwater in 1898. A highly skilled craftsman, Myres was ...
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Simmons House
810 Broadway, Sweetwater
Robert Mosby Simmons (1887-1955), noted civic leader and president of the Sweetwater Cotton Oil Company for many years, originally built this house ...
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Site of U. S. Army Air Corps Plane Crash
SH 70, E side, 0.9 mi. N of FM 1856, about 2 mi. S of I-20
(0.6 miles east) At 6:05 a.m. on Friday, April 20, 1945, twenty-five Army Air Corps officers and enlisted men left Midland Army Air Field in a C-47 ...
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Sweetwater Cemetery
Sweetwater Cemetery, W. Alabama Street
The oldest marked grave in this public burial ground is that of an infant, Purl Ray Scott, who died in 1880. It predates the founding of the town ...
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Sweetwater Municipal Auditorium
400 Locust Street, Sweetwater
Designed by the Page Brothers architectural firm of Austin, this auditorium was constructed for the City of Sweetwater in 1926-27. The building's ...
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Sweetwater Reporter
112 West 3rd Street, Sweetwater Marker reported missing 2.2023.
C.E. Gilbert, who founded the "Abilene Reporter", established the "Sweetwater Advance" in 1881, the year Nolan County was organized. Later published ...
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Texas & Pacific Railway
Corner of 1st and Oak Streets, Sweetwater
Construction of the Texas and Pacific Railway began in East Texas in the early 1870's. By 1880 the line was expanding westward. It reached Sweetwater ...
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Trammell House
1400 Sam Houston, Sweetwater
Rancher and banker Thomas Trammell (1848-1919) was called the "Father of Sweetwater." He hired noted California architect John Young to design this ...
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W.A.S.P. (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) Training Base: Avenger Field
Courthouse Square, Broadway Avenue -Sweetwater
Site of World War II drama. Here girls, like male cadets, learned to fly United States Army Air Forces planes. WASPs had civil service status rather ...
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W.A.S.P. Training Base: Avenger Field
From Sweetwater, take I-20 west about 4 miles to exit 240 -marker faces sign on north R.O.W.
Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trained here in military aircraft during World War II, from February 21, 1943, through final graduation day, ...
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Women Airforce Service Pilots
From Sweetwater, take IH-20 West about 6 miles to the Texas State Technical College campus to Avenger Field
Jacqueline Cochran, one to the most famous women pilots of the Twentieth Century, persistently lobbied U.S. Army Airforce General Henry "Hap" Arnold ...