Lieutenant Robert Hoyle Upchurch was born in the rural community of High Falls, North Carolina on August 23, 1923, where he grew up in a large, close family. The second youngest of eleven children, he was known by his family as “Hoyle”. After . . . — — Map (db m104351) HM
Thomas B. Tyson & W.T. Jones's factory produced horse-drawn vehicles sold across South. 1850s to 1920s. At peak made 3000 per year. Stood here. — — Map (db m88659) HM
Sen. Harris Blake and Dr. Lian Xie have worked tirelessly since 2006 to maintain good will between the U.S. and Hunan Provence, China. Both countries fought together to defeat Japan in WWII. 60 years after the war, a relationship was renewed when a . . . — — Map (db m104353) HM WM
-Translation-
To the American Sergeant Pilot Aviator
James McConnell
Voluntary Enlisted Man in the
French Aviation on December 27th, 1915
Killed in Action on
March 19th, 1917 in Aerial Combat
The country of France will forever be . . . — — Map (db m104348) HM WM
In January 1915 James Roger McConnell left Carthage, N.C. For N.Y. And sailed to France. He volunteered in the American Ambulance Service as an ambulance driver. He was awarded the much coveted Croix de Guerre for Bravery Under Fire. He later joined . . . — — Map (db m104350) HM WM
23rd Fighter Group, 74th Squadron
US Army Air Corps
MIA/KIA Oct. 6th, 1944
A Member of the Famous Flying Tigers
Home at Last, April 8th, 2006
Dedicated April 7, 2012 — — Map (db m104352) HM WM
Zeb Harrington was raised in Chatham County N.C. Near Moncure. He was a young boy during WWII and was always fascinated by anything military, especially airplanes. He grew up and married his wife, Martha, and raised four children. Gerald, Sherri, . . . — — Map (db m104347) HM WM
Early pastor for Scots in N.C.; chaplain for Loyalists at Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, 1776. First Presbyterian minister in Ontario. Lived 4 mi. S. — — Map (db m64843) HM
One mile south, on south side of East Branch of Mulberry Creek, David Crockett built a log house in which he lived from 1811 to 1813. While here he hunted, and cleared a field three miles northwest on "Hungry Hill." When bears and other game became . . . — — Map (db m24631) HM
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Green-Evans-Hudgens House
circa 1858 — — Map (db m196474) HM
Lynchburg was a mere crossroads village in 1861, but the war and the years that followed it transformed this place. By the end of April 1861—six weeks before Tennesseans formally voted to secede—local men had formed Co. E (Lynchburg Rangers), 1st . . . — — Map (db m152104) HM
Moore County was created by an Act of the Tennessee legislature December 1871, and was named in honor of Gen. William Moore. Born in Kentucky in 1786, he settled on Mulberry Creek circa 1806. Captain in the War of 1812 and the Creek Indian Wars, and . . . — — Map (db m24630) HM
[Monument, front side]
We cannot forget
We must not forget
We dare not forget
Air Force • Army • Coast Guard • Navy • Marine Corps
In honor of those sons and daughters
of Moore County who served their
country . . . — — Map (db m152112) WM
About 100 yds east is this cemetery, on land donated by William Stark Smith, a veteran of the Revolution who had been wounded at Brandywine and received a grant hereabouts for his services. Pioneers buried here include John Motlow (1757-1812), who . . . — — Map (db m24632) HM
This is to certify that
The Jack Daniel Distillery
has been entered on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The National Register is a list of properties "significant in American History, . . . — — Map (db m61363) HM
In 1891, Louis Dumas and J. R. Wheat formed the Panhandle Townsite Company to develop and promote a community they named Dumas. A post office was established the same year, and in 1892 Dumas was elected the seat of Moore County government. A . . . — — Map (db m88771) HM
The United States government had the Canadian River explored in 1845, just before Texas joined the Union. Topographical engineer James W. Abert (1820-1897), a West Point graduate, had charge of a 33-man party, and spent two or more days in the . . . — — Map (db m151080) HM
Have proved beneficial from earliest times when prehistoric man developed first industry in Texas by mining flint deposits along the Canadian River. Items made from these quarries have been found over a large portion of the western United States. . . . — — Map (db m88769) HM
Created 1876 from Bexar Land District. Named in honor of Edwin W. Moore (1810-1865), Commodore of the Navy, Republic of Texas. County was organized July 5, 1892, with Dumas (named for promoter of the townsite) as county seat. Stagecoach and . . . — — Map (db m88789) HM
Land for this courthouse square was donated by Louis Dumas, who laid out the townsite in 1891. One year later, Moore County was formally organized as a government, and in 1893 the county's first courthouse was built. The original courthouse was . . . — — Map (db m88784) HM
Comanche, Kiowa & Indians before them camped 6 miles SE of Dumas by springs that fed Big Blue Creek
Arrow sculptor: Charles A.Smith — — Map (db m155126) HM
As ranchers and merchants settled in this part of Texas during the 1870s, the need for a direct supply line became evident. This trail was established in 1877 for cattle drives and freight hauls from Tascosa (38 mi. SW) to markets in Dodge City, . . . — — Map (db m120035) HM
Founded 1877, for travel from Tascosa, on the Canadian (25 mi. SW) to Dodge City, Kansas. Tascosa was supply center for hunters and settlers, Panhandle and South Plains; and for LE, LIT, LS and LX Ranches, running large herds of cattle on . . . — — Map (db m88791) HM
Until the mid-1880's, no range fences existed in the Texas Panhandle. Thus when winter blizzards came, cattle drifted from Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas to the Texas ranches of T ("Box T"--Dominion Cattle Co. Ltd.), 7K ("Seven K"--York, Parker & . . . — — Map (db m88767) HM
In 1927, three companies combined to construct a natural gas plant and pipeline to produce gas for Denver, Colorado. Small houses and a hotel were constructed for married and single workers. A one-room school was soon constructed for the workers’ . . . — — Map (db m88786) HM
Until the mid-1880's, no range fences existed in the Texas Panhandle. Thus when winter blizzards came, cattle drifted from Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas to the Texas ranches of ("Box T"--Dominion Cattle Co. Ltd.), K ("Seven K"--York, Parker & . . . — — Map (db m151082) HM
