Near Rockwell Drive, 0.2 miles west of State Highway 6, on the right when traveling west.
O.C. Britton opened Cisco’s first college in 1909, with a campus established on 212 acres of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Survey. The school closed after the onset of World War I, and the site was used by a series of three later colleges . . . — — Map (db m113520) HM
On County Road 126, 0.6 miles north of Farm to Market Road 2945, on the right when traveling north.
The Texas and Pacific Railway built the Delmar depot near here in 1880 before rail activity shifted to Red Gap (later Cisco). A new community named Dothan formed and gained a post office in 1902. Jim and Manirval (Short) Dunaway, who settled here in . . . — — Map (db m113527) HM
Near Avenue E at W. 9th Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Rev. C.G. Stephens, founder of Red Gap community (1 mi. W), joined the Rev. W.B. Cobb in 1878 to organize the Red Gap Baptist Church. Forerunner of the First Baptist Church of Cisco, the Red Gap congregation had 13 charter members who met in a . . . — — Map (db m113524) HM
Near Conrad Hilton Boulevard north of E. 8th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Scene of daring Santa Claus Bank Robbery, Dec. 23, 1927.
During Christmas festivities, costumed Santa and three fellow bandits looted bank of $12,200 cash, $150,000 in securities. They escaped through gun battle with two little girls as . . . — — Map (db m113523) HM
Near W. 6th Street at Avenue H, on the right when traveling west.
When the town of Cisco was platted in May 1881, land at the corner of Eighth Street and Avenue G was set aside for use by a Presbyterian congregation. In August of that same year, local residents Lillie Hightower, Mrs. F.F. Lattimer, Mrs. J.A. Lee, . . . — — Map (db m113521) HM
Near Avenue H at W. 8th Street, on the left when traveling south.
The Rev. Lamb Trimble, a Methodist circuit rider, organized this church at Red Gap (two miles west) in 1880. The four charter members met in the home of M.V. Mitchell, a sheep rancher. The congregation moved to Cisco one year later when the city was . . . — — Map (db m113525) HM
Dolphin William Bint (1845-1883) came to the United States from England in 1876 and settled in Eastland County in the Red Gap community. While on a journey to Fort Worth to buy lumber for their home, his wife gave birth to a stillborn son. His . . . — — Map (db m113526) HM
Near Conrad Hilton Boulevard (State Highway 6) at 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.
First hotel owned by Conrad Hilton, who proceeded to become “The World’s Foremost Innkeeper”.
Built in 1916 by H.L. Mobley, a northerner, who sold out (1919) during Cisco’s great oil boom to Hilton, then a 32-year-old . . . — — Map (db m113519) HM
Near County Road 147 at County Road 151, on the right when traveling south.
Settled in the 1870s, the Scranton community grew to include a post office, stores, a cotton gin, blacksmith, school and academy. In Oct. 1896, Joseph Jackson Ray and Sarah Frances (Morgan) Ray donated land for a Baptist church and graveyard. The . . . — — Map (db m80071) HM
A private, co-educational school organized in 1903 to augment Scranton Public School (opened 1887).
Scranton, a small farming-ranching community, was only 13 years old when citizens founded the academy, by public subscription. The school . . . — — Map (db m79954) HM
Near W. 7th Street at Avenue E, on the right when traveling west.
The Bankhead National Highway, from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, California, was the nation’s first all-weather, coast-to-coast highway. The southern road skirted the western mountains and was largely free from ice and snow, so it could be used . . . — — Map (db m113522) HM
