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22717 Alice Reynolds Albany Cemetery, Section West 16, Lot 31. Marker pending. marker pending

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22718 Berta Hart Nance Albany Cemetery, New Cemetery, Sec. G, Block 2 Lot 40. Marker pending. marker pending 17914 Big Country Baptist Assembly Big Country Baptist Assembly, FM 142 0.1 mi NE of SH 6 Modern Christian camping records go back to the late 1700s, but the focus on camping for youth started in west Texas in 1898 on the clear fork of ... 17611 Black Cemetery From Albany, US 283 N for 15 mi., left on CR 184-PR 58 for one mile, near PR 58 (private property) This pioneer burial ground contains more than a dozen graves of African Americans. The land was part of the Veals addition to the town of Fort Griffin. ... 557 Bud Matthews Switch of the Texas Central Railway about 14 mi. W of Albany In 1900 the Texas Central Railway extended a line northwest from Albany across this portion of Rose Ella (Matthews) Conrad's cattle ranch. Ella and ...

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879 City of Albany First National Bank Park, 112 Main Street or Highway 180 & Highway 283 -Ablany Chosen county seat of Shackelford in 1874, Albany had a 43-acre townsite donated by Sheriff Henry C. Jacobs. County clerk W. R. Cruger named city ... 16822 Civilian Conservation Corps at Fort Griffin 1701 N US HWY 283, Albany, (Fort Griffin Historic Site) THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC) OPERATED NATIONWIDE BETWEEN 1933 AND 1942 TO CONSERVE NATURAL RESOURCES AND TO PROVIDE WORK FOR YOUNG MEN DURING ... 1052 Cook Ranch Oil Field City Park at U.S. 180/283 intersection, west city limits -Albany William Ivy Cook (1857-1923) and his wife Matilda moved to this county in 1985. With a brother-in-law, J. H. Nail, Cook purchased a 27.75-section ... 1076 Cottle No.1, First Gas Well in Shackelford County Intersection of SH 6 & FM 576 -Moran The appearance in 1908 of oil and gas in water wells in this vicinity prompted the Texas Company (later Texaco, Inc.) in June 1909 to begin leasing ...

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16347 Dr. Jack Shackelford 225 South Main Street Physician and military commander, Jack Shackelford, was born in Richmond, Virginia. He earned an M.D. degree and in 1811, moved to Winnsboro, South ...

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1565 Family Forts, C.S.A. Fort Griffin State Historic Site. On Park Road 54, next to softball field in campground. Few in numbers and with little protection from the military but refusing to abandon their country, certain families of courageous and determined ... 17640 First Christian Church 201 S. Second Street In December 1886, evangelist J. P. Pinkerton led 26 people from 19 families to found this church. Members met in the Shackelford County Courthouse. ... 1879 First United Methodist Church of Albany Intersection of N. Jacobs & N. 2nd Streets -Albany Oldest congregation in Northwest Texas Conference of Methodist Church. First church of any denomination founded in Shackelford County. Organized ... 1987 Fort Griffin Civil Jail City Park -N. Avenue C & Railroad Street -Albany This structure was the jail used in the town of Fort Griffin located 15 miles north of here, near the United States Army Post of Fort Griffin which ... 14396 Fort Griffin Fandangle Albany FORT GRIFFIN FANDANGLE IN JULY 1938, AREA RESIDENTS GATHERED HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST SHOWING OF THE FORT GRIFFIN FANDANGLE. EARLIER THAT ... 18404 Frank Eben Conrad 950 CR 220 Frank Eben Conrad (1842-1892) was born in Rockford, Illinois, to John and Mary Ann (Brookbank) Conrad. After the death of his parents in Florida, ... 13028 Frontier Town of Fort Griffin 14 mi. N of Albany on US 283, then W on CR 184 for 3/4 mi. In the 19th century, the U.S. government established forts along Texas' frontier to protect pioneers. By the early 1850s, Col. Jesse Stem farmed ...

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18714 Goodnight-Loving Trail in Shackelford County from Albany, W 10 mi. on US 180, SW 2.2 mi. on CR 220 to Chimney Creek Ranch turnoff, on private property. Shackelford County was an unorganized and largely unsettled county of 914 square miles when Oliver Loving (1812-1867) and Charles Goodnight (1836-1929) ... 13204 Granville E. Waters 1.5 mi. E of Moran on FM 2408, at gravesite in Moran Cemetery Born in Ashtabula County, Ohio in April 1852, Granville Eades Waters came to Texas in 1871. He settled in the north central part of the state before ...

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2313 H. C. Jacobs House Jacobs Street, Albany First permanent home in Albany. Built 1875 of stone from nearby deposits by Henry Carter Jacobs (1842-94), an organizer and the first sheriff of ... 12365 Hartfield Building 224 W. Main St. Charles A. Hartfield purchased the lot on this site in 1881. A noted area cook, he quickly established "Charley's Restaurant," which included a bakery ...

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17528 Ibex FM 601, S side 9.5 mi. E of SH 6 Oil drilling in the 1920s transformed this area from cattle ranches to a boomtown. In 1919, the Ibex Oil Co. drilled a successful well into the Caddo ...

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2707 Jackson Warehouse 322 S. Main, Albany T. E. Jackson, a prominent businessman from Fort Griffin (15 miles north) built this structure in the late 1870s as a warehouse for a general merchandise ...

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3059 Ledbetter Picket House Webb Park -112 Main Street -Albany William Henry Ledbetter (1833-84), a native of Georgia, came to Texas in 1858, and established a salt works on Hubbard Creek (8 miles southwest) ... 3060 Ledbetter Salt Work, C.S.A. Courthouse Square, corner of SH 6 & Highway 180, Albany Located 8 miles southwest on Salt Prong, Hubbard Creek. Discovered 1861 by trail drives. W. H. Ledbetter began extensive development of deposits ... 13108 Lt. Col. William E. Dyess Albany Cemetery, near intersection of Williams St and McComas Ln (Aug. 9, 1916 - Dec. 22, 1943) A graduate of Albany High School, William Edwin Dyess was an aviation and infantry commander in the Phillipines during ... 13109 Lt. Col. William E. Dyess Courthouse square, near intersection of S Main St and US 380 (August 9, 1916 – December 22, 1943) A native of Albany, and a graduate of Albany High School and John Tarleton Agricultural College, William Edwin ...

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3257 Matthews Memorial Presbyterian Church Corner of Jacobs & S. 2nd Streets, Albany -- 3468 Moran Intersection of SH 6 & FM 576, Moran Pioneers came to this area as early as the 1860s. During the Civil War (1861-65), they built the temporary fortress settlement of Mugginsville on ... 17708 Moran Cemetery Moran After Hulltown (later Moran) was founded in 1883, nearby Dennis and Johnson Cemeteries were the only burial grounds. In 1896, Moran citizens elected ... 18805 Moran Church of Christ Moran Cemetery: 2 miles east of Moran, Texas on FM 2408; 2 miles west of marker location at the corner of Cooper and Grace Streets in Moran.

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17619 Robert Edward Nail, Jr. 329 S. 3rd Street Robert (Bobby) Nail graduated from Albany High School in 1926. In New Jersey, at Lawrenceville Prep. School and Princeton U., his literary activities ... 4397 Rye-Caperton House 225 South Walnut, Albany Built in 1874, and used as an office building, this structure was moved here in 1879 from Fort Griffin. Owner Edgar Rye was a newspaper publisher, ...

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4647 Shackelford County Center of city park at intersection 180 & 283, Albany Formed from Bosque County; created February 1, 1858; organized September 12, 1874. Named in honor of Dr. Jack Shackelford 1790-1857; captain of the ... 4648 Shackelford County Courthouse grounds, intersection of SH 6 & Highway 180 -Albany First inhabited by nomadic Indian tribes, Shackelford County was created in 1858 and named for Dr. John Shackelford (1790-1857). The first permanent ... 4649 Shackelford County Courthouse Courthouse Square, intersection of SH 6 & Highway 180, Albany Built 1883-84 from plans by J. E. Flanders of Dallas, architect for several other 1880s Texas courthouses. Edgar Rye of Albany was construction superintendent. ... 4650 Shackelford County's First Permanent Jail South 2nd Street, Albany Erected 1877-78 by architects and builders Thomas & Woerner of Fort Worth. Gerard B. Allen of St. Louis furnished ironwork. Initials on many of the ... 4879 Site of Reynolds Presbyterian Academy Trinity Churchyard, Avenue B, Albany Founded on counsel of the Reverend French McAfee; named in honor of a pioneer rancher, Barber Watkins Reynolds (d. 1882), the Reynolds Presbyterian ... 4958 Smith's Station (Not accessible from car) -From Albany, take Highway 180 west about 12 miles to county road, then take county road south about 2 miles to "Smith Station of the Butterfield Overland Mail" trail sign, then follow trail about 4 miles east. From 1858 until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, a station of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route was located here. Despite a brief existence, ...

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5250 Texas Cattle Trail Courthouse grounds, corner of Highway 180 and SH 6 -Albany In Memory of TEXAS CATTLE TRAIL - To Dodge City, Kansas and other northern points 1875 - 1890. (1964) 5253 Texas Central Railway Company Webb Park -112 Main Street, Albany 16916 The Albany News on the North end of the sidewalk in front of the Albany News office at 49 South Main Street facing West, one block North of the Courthouse IN 1866, A UNION ARMY REGULAR, HARRY HALL (H.H.) McCONNELL (1837-1895), LEFT PENNSYLVANIA AND TRAVELED TO FORT BELKNAP NEAR JACKSBORO. A NATURAL ... 5373 The Lynch Building Faces courthouse grounds, intersection of SH 6 & Highway 180, Albany This was Albany's first stone mercantile store. It was erected in stages, combining Greek revival and Victorian Italianate designs. In 1878, W. H. ... 13673 The Rev. John Brown, Clara Barton and the 1886-1887 Drought Relief intersection of SH 6, US 283, US 180 Scottish immigrant John Brown (1842-1903) moved west following his theological studies in New York. He married Mary Jane Matthews Larn near Fort ... 5559 Trinity Episcopal Church N. 2nd Street & Avenue B, Albany The oldest church building in Albany. Methodists, who organized their church in 1873, built this sanctuary on Schoolhouse Hill in 1889, moved it ...

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14110 Western Cattle Trail Crossings at Fort Griffin, The 14 mi. N of Albany on US 283, then .5 mi. W on CR 184 Cattle have been important to Texas' economy since early Spanish mission days. Before and after the Civil War, routes developed for driving herds ... 14887 White Elephant Saloon S. Main St (Blach Building) The land on this site, Lot 9, Block 3 of the original town plat of Albany, was purchased in 1882 by noted local restauranteur Charles ...