On 11th Street (Loop State Highway 466) at Avenue E (State Highway 163), on the right when traveling west on 11th Street.
A native of Illinois, E. M. Powell was a surveyor and railroad engineer in Kentucky before moving to Texas in 1874. He worked as a surveyor during the railroad construction boom in Texas in the 1870s, taking parcels of land in payment for his . . . — — Map (db m143982) HM
On County Road 310 2.1 miles north of U.S. 190, on the right when traveling north.
O. W. Parker (1876-1962) moved to Crockett County in 1902 and worked for local ranchers until he eventually established his own ranch. Parker had this house built for his family after the 1926 Yates oil field discovery brought prosperity to the . . . — — Map (db m150324) HM
On Avenue E at 10th Street, on the left when traveling west on Avenue E. Reported missing.
In 1892 Claude B. Hudspeth (1877-1941) began publication of a weekly newspaper called the "Ozona Kicker." Following his three-year ownership, Hudspeth entered politics, serving first in the Texas Legislature and later as representative from the . . . — — Map (db m300816) HM
On Avenue D south of 11th Street (Loop State Highway 466), on the right when traveling south.
In 1893, T.L. Hammonds moved a 3-room frame house from the nearby town of Emerald to this site. In 1894, Phillip Perner (1860-1905), a local merchant, purchased and enlarged the structure. Following Perner's death, his wife, Mary Ross . . . — — Map (db m127877) HM
Built about 1893. From its early days, boarded teachers, visiting athletic teams and business callers in city.
Noted guests of 1919-1921 were geologists and lease men seeking to develop the now-significant oil fields of Crockett . . . — — Map (db m116349) HM
On Loop State Highway 467 0.5 miles south of Interstate 10, on the right when traveling east.
Has traces of culture at least 20,000 years old, occupied by Apache Indians up to founding of Fort Terrett, 1852. Anglo-Texan settlement began 1879 at Sonora, a trading post on San Antonio-El Paso Road.
Created April 1, 1887, from land then in . . . — — Map (db m126223) HM
On Charlotte Avenue 0.2 miles west of Preston Road, on the left when traveling west.
A pioneer leader in Wichita County, Simon Peter Hawkins was born in Crockett County, Tenn. He married Sara A. Hardin (1852-1937) in 1869. They had eight children. With his brother-in-law John G. Hardin, Hawkins moved his family to Johnson County, . . . — — Map (db m287398) HM
Near Interstate 10 at Taylor Road (County Road 108), on the right when traveling west.
The first platted town in Crockett County, Emerald was founded in 1889 by Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Immigration Agent T. W. Wilkinson. It was to be an agricultural shipping point on a planned extension of the F.W. & R.G. Publicized from Maine . . . — — Map (db m117502) HM
On Heights Boulevard south of E 16th St, on the right when traveling north.
Bedford Forrest Coop (1866–1929) was born in Crockett County, Tennessee. He studied medicine at Washington University before getting married and joining a private practice in Greenville, Illinois. After falling ill with tuberculosis in 1908, Dr. . . . — — Map (db m271787) HM
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