Historical Markers of Texas

1176 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 ...

1679 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 ...

2461 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 ...

13013 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 ...

23915 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 ...

3600 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. ... 16072 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 ...

4149 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 ... 4165 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. ... 14832 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, ... 17217 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 ...

4400 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 ... 4701 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 ... 12124 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 ... 5163 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 ... 5164 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 ... 5165 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 ...

5240 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 ... 5551 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 ...

5666 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 ... 5667 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, ... 5893 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 ...