Dyer County / Lauderdale County

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Dyer County

Established 1823; named in honor of

Colonel Robert Henry Dyer

who served valiantly under General Andrew Jackson in the Natchez Expedition, the Creek War, War of 1812, - including the decisive battle of New Orleans, - and the Seminole War, 1818.

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Lauderdale ...

Sacred

Marker on front side of statue

Sacred

Shown in halter competition, Sacred has earned multiple AQHA World Champion and Reserve World Champion titles. The 1995 chestnut mare also has won the All American Quarter Horse Congress multiple times and has earned AQHA ...

Dash for Cash

and Jerry Nicodemus

Marker on left side of statue

Dash for Cash

By Rocket Wrangler out of Find a Buyer (TB), Dash for Cash combined speed, athletic ability, conformation, intelligence and a good disposition. Foaled in 1973, the stallion started 25 races finishing ...

Thomas Cree Homesite

First Tree

After serving as a teamster in the Civil War (1861-65), Thadium (Thomas) B. Cree worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1888 he and his wife came to the High Plains. They acquired this land and, with no trees ...

King Street Arcade

Charles Huart, Architect

The King Street Arcade is an example of an arcaded block, a distinctive building type popular in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. The exterior is characterized by a series of tall, evenly ...

Luther Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church

Claude & Starck; Reginald Stehr

The Gothic Revival style church by preeminent Madison architects Claude & Starck is a masterwork example of this style. The mid-century Gothic Revival style education building by Reginald Stehr is significant as a contemporary representation of ...

The Work Force

We welcome you to our yard. You are now a member of our army of 25,000 men and women building the ships so urgently needed to carry war supplies to the fighting front.

New England Shipbuilding Corporation, Employee Handbook

With the shipyards ...

Voyages for Victory

Each new ship strikes a blow at the menace to the Nation and for the Liberty of the Free People of the World…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

September 27, 1941

At the launching of the first Liberty ship, Patrick Henry from Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard

In ...

El Camino Real

(The King’s Highway)

In this vicinity was the Indian trail which, during the period of Spanish occupation, became known as El Camino Real or King’s Highway. This road, connecting St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida, crossed the Flint River at the ...

Elfego Baca

1865-1945

"I will show the Texans there is at least one Mexican in the county who is not afraid of an American cowboy"

Elfego Baca - 1884

In October 1884, seven drunken cowboys committed horrific acts against two Mexican men in Upper Frisco, ...