During the 1930s severe drought plagued the states in the Great Plains and deepened the Depression. High winds caused dust storms which blackened the sky. In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a program to help stabilize the blowing soil . . . — — Map (db m39805) HM
To combat dust storms during the 1930s, the federal Prairie States Forestry Project planned the planting of wide belts of trees from North Dakota to Texas. The first of these shelterbelts was planted on the H.E. Curtis farm near Mangum in Greer . . . — — Map (db m174852) HM
Began in southern Texas after Quanah Parker and the Comanches surrendered at Fort Sill in 1875. Due to the failing Post-Civil war economy in Texas, ranchers developed a 1,000 mile trail to Dodge City, Ogallala, and other northern markets to receive . . . — — Map (db m180178) HM
On April 22, 1889, one of the significant events of American History swept across this location and some 2,000,000 surrounding acres. On that day more than 50,000 men and women rushed to stake their claims in the Land Run of 1889. That one day . . . — — Map (db m157301) HM
First Flag
Royal Standard of Spain
Coronado's Expedition
1541
Second Flag
Great Union of Great Britain
Carolina Land Grant
Included Oklahoma
1663
Third Flag
Royal Standard of France
LaSalle Claimed the . . . — — Map (db m60393) HM
Dale Hall, opened in 1967, and Dale Hall Tower, occupied two years later, were named for the eminent University of Oklahoma historian, Edward Everett Dale. Born in 1879, in old Greer County, Dale spent his boyhood working as a cowboy. When still a . . . — — Map (db m277669) HM
Center Panel
The 36th Infantry Division was organized by combining the Oklahoma and Texas National Guards. Sixty men who volunteered from Old Greer County were kept together and placed in the 132nd Machine Gun Battalion in that division. . . . — — Map (db m288525) HM WM
The 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty determined the United States-Spanish boundary to be the Red River to the 100th Meridian and extended north to the Arkansas River. Texas later claimed that the North Fork of the Red River, instead of the south or Prairie . . . — — Map (db m174929) HM
Friendship
Friendship was once called Alfalfa, serving as the site of the Alfalfa Post Office from 1903 to 1905. Clabber Flat School, which began one mile west and one-half mile north of here in 1899, became the first Friendship School, . . . — — Map (db m182289) HM
This Broadway location had its roots with the purchase of the First State
Bank of Hitchcock on March 2, 1973. Charles T. Doyle of Texas City led
an investment group who purchased the bank from Shearn Moody, Jr. of
Galveston. Doyle later founded . . . — — Map (db m245513) HM
Created 1860; until 1896, one of largest counties in Texas. Organized at Old Mobeetie, northwest of here. In 1880s settlement was rapid; by 1892 nearly 2,500 pupils were in county's schools. A post office, jail and many houses were built, and over . . . — — Map (db m100324) HM
Alice Florence Sheriff
Daughter of B.F.J. Davis and Margaret Lucinda Ray born July 24, 1885, Bell County, Texas. Came to Reed community, Greer County, 1900 with her parents, brothers, and sisters in a covered wagon. Attended business college . . . — — Map (db m288803) HM
Alice Gilstrap Ewalt
Alice Morning Gilstrap was born Mar. 22, 1862 at Bloomington, Il. One of eight children born to David Wilson Gilstrap and Permelia Frances Stillwell. The family moved to Texas and she married John Francis Ewalt on Sept. 5, . . . — — Map (db m289972) HM
Caledonia Armstrong Trench
Caledonia Armstrong, daughter of Martha Jane Isbell and George Armstrong, was born May 28, 1876, in Panola County, Mississippi. She married Daniel MacKay Trench in Waelder, Texas. They settled in Old Greer County in, . . . — — Map (db m289611) HM
Dr. Fowler Border
Born in San Augustine, Texas in 1871. He opened the first hospital in Old Greer County at S.E. corner of Court House Square in 1900. He was awarded a gold medal by the people of Snyder, Oklahoma for service above and beyond . . . — — Map (db m289530) HM
George Washington Boyd
Captain Boyd was born Sept. 12, 1859, in Coryell County, Texas. He was the son of James and Elizabeth Boyd.
He came to what was later Old Greer County in 1876 with buffalo hunters as a skinner. Two years later he . . . — — Map (db m290623) HM
Samuel D. Rude
Born 1865 in Farmersville, Collin County, Texas. The son of I.J. and Sarah Alexander Rude. Married Sarah Pyeatt in 1888, to which union was born five children - Hester, Lela, Ike, Myrtle and Dorothy.
Homesteaded N.E. of . . . — — Map (db m289126) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
