John Hemphill

1803 - 1862

On the eve of secession, U.S. Senator Hemphill set forth to Senate January 1861 Texas' right to secede and again became a sovereign nation. Elected delegate provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama which drafted the new nation's constitution, ...

Hemphill County

Formed from Young and Bexar

Territories

Created August 21, 1876

Organized July 5, 1886

Named in honor of

John Hemphill, 1809-1862

First Chief Justice of the Supreme

Court of the State of Texas

Adjutant General of the

Somervell Expedition

Member of the first

State Constitutional Convention

Member of the United States Congress

Canadian, ...

Lipscomb County

Formed from Young and

Bexar Territories

Created, August 21, 1876

Organized June 6, 1887

Named in honor of

Abner S. Lipscomb, 1789-1856

Secretary of State

in President Lamar's cabinet

Member of the Constitutional

Convention, 1845

Associate justice of the first

Supreme Court of Texas

Lipscomb, the county seat

Marker is at the intersection ...

Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell

(1902-2004)

Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell was born to a Moravian family in North Carolina, where her upbringing and education led her to devote her life to seeking educational opportunities for others. She served as dean of Staunton's Mary Baldwin College and ...

Whitmell P. Tunstall

One mile east stands Belle Grove, the home of Whitmell Pugh Tunstall (1810-1854). Educated at Danville Academy and the University of North Carolina, Tunstall was admitted to the bar in 1832. He served in the House of Delegates (1836-1841; 1845-1848) ...

Wilbur G. Grant Reservoir of Chester Metropolitan District

Dedicated by resolution of the Commission in recognition of the work and service of Senator Wilbur G. Grant in making possible this Reservoir and water system, for the people of Chester County.

E.J. Fowler, Chairman; Robert H. King, Secretary; W.E. ...

Government Springs

A Camping Place

on the

Old Chisholm Trail

Before and After 1865

Through the path finders die

the paths remain open

Marker is on South 5th Street 0.1 miles south of East Oklahoma Avenue, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Missouri Compromise

(36° 30' North Latitude)

This marker sits on the Missouri Compromise line which by an Act of Congress on March 6, 1820, enabled Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a Slave State. But, the Act forbade slavery in the ...

Camp Tonkawa

(front)

Site of German Prisoner of War Camp known as Camp Tonkawa – World War II – Jan. 1943 – Sept 1945

See other side for story

(back)

Between October and December 1942 more than 900 construction workers labored 24 hours a day to ...

Ponca City Library

Ponca City had been in existence for 11 years. She had schools, churches and even an opera house, but not a library. A group of women from the Twentieth Century Club decided to remedy this and convinced H.C.R. Brodboll to ...