On Highway 283 at Road E1370, on the right when traveling north on Highway 283.
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
On U.S. 62 1 mile east of North Veterans Drive, on the right when traveling west.
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
Near Centennial Avenue 0.2 miles south of Reno Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
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
On NE 21st Street at Lincoln Boulevard, on the right when traveling west on NE 21st Street.
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
On Van Vleet Oval north of West Lindsey Street, on the left when traveling north.
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
On North Main Street north of W Parker Street, on the left when traveling north.
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
On County Road 210 at East 1600 Road, on the right when traveling north on County Road 210.
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
On Broadway Avenue J (Texas Route 87) west of 24th Street Rear, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Interstate 40 at milepost 175, 2 miles west of Oklahoma State line, on the right when traveling west.
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
On West Jefferson Street at S Commerce Alley, on the left when traveling west on West Jefferson Street.
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
On West Jefferson Street at S Commerce Alley, on the left when traveling west on West Jefferson Street.
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
On West Jefferson Street at S Commerce Alley, on the left when traveling west on West Jefferson Street.
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
On West Jefferson Street at S Commerce Alley, on the left when traveling west on West Jefferson Street.
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
On West Jefferson Street at S Commerce Alley, on the left when traveling west on West Jefferson Street.
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
On West Jefferson Street at S Commerce Alley, on the left when traveling west on West Jefferson Street.
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.
