Site of Parmerton

(Elevation 4,202 feet)

Founded as Parmer Switch on Pecos & Northern Texas Railroad in 1898. In 1906 became site of a model farm. Using Campbell dry farming method, run by Capitol Freehold Land & Investment Co.

In 1907, Parmerton Townsite Co. bought ...

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

When established by the XIT Ranch in 1898, this community was originally called Frio, after Frio (Cold) Draw, and it served as a shipping point on the recently built Pecos & Northern Texas Railroad. In 1906, the George G. Wright ...

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 ...

The National Monument to our Forefathers

Was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Parks Service, the Department of the Interior in September 1974. The monument, designed by Hammet Billings of Boston, was erected by the the Pilgrim Society in 1889. It ...

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. ...