Site of First Church in City of Friona

The city of Friona was founded in 1906 by George G. Wright Land Co., of Kansas City, an agency employed by the XIT Ranch owners to sell their range lands in small tracts. Religious-minded settlers in 1908 organized the Union ...

Friona Schools

Friona has the distinction of being the first town in Texas to integrate its schools. The first school opened on this site in 1908 in a one-room frame building, with Roxie Witherspoon teaching 18 pupils. A two-story brick school finished ...

Friona Women's Clubs

By 1898, Friona and several other area townsites had been laid out as switches on the Pecos Valley & Northern Texas Railroad. Settlers soon began arriving in Friona, which incorporated in 1906. Twenty Friona women organized a club in September ...

Black Community

In 1898, the Santa Fe Railroad came through here and associated buildings were constructed in what would become the Black Community. Named for land speculator E.B. Black, the community was further settled beginning in 1908, when the Wright Land Company ...

Gragg Lumber Company

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In 1926, brothers John, Earl, Wayne and Gilbert Gragg came from North Carolina to establish a sawmill six tenths of a mile north of here on the east side of Amsterdam Road. As the Gragg Lumber Co., they ...

Amsterdam, Georgia / Shade Grown Tobacco

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Amsterdam, Georgia

In 1891, A. Cohn & Co. purchased 14,000 acres for tobacco cultivation and named it Amsterdam. At that time, the property was the largest tobacco plantation in the world under one ownership. In 1907, seven of the larger ...

Fort Independence

Dedicated July 14th by the Republic of France and the people of Hull in celebration of the United States of America bicentennial. In grateful tribute to the French sailors and marines who served and died at Fort Independence during the ...

Granby Civil War Monument

(South side)

(Upper)

Col. Richard E. Holcomb June 14, 1863

Surg. W. Horatio Goddard Aug. 18, 1963

8, Regt. Conn. Vols. Inf.

Henry Saunders May 17, 1862

Lafayette Tillotson Sept. 17, 1862

10, Regt. Conn. Vols. Inf.

Cyrus R. Bunnell Dec. 30, 1862

Edwin W. Jones Aug. 29, 1864

Geo. ...

Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur

Dedicated to

Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur

U.S. Army

by the people of Chicopee, Mass.

on September 7, 1942

Born in house at this square June 2, 1845

Died September 5, 1912

Marker is on Church Street south of Bridge Street / Broadway Street, on the left when ...

The Cabotville Sycamores

The sycamores have survived hurricanes, floods, an industrial revolution and the onslaught of modern urbanization. These handsome trees were growing here in 1848 when the citizens of Cabotville petitioned the legislature for the right to incorporate as a town. The ...