Birthplace of the Texas Oil Industry

First important oil field in Texas

opened here Oct. 15, 1895.

First successful refinery in Texas

Completed Christmas Day , 1898

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Plaque presented to

The Citizens of Corsicana

by the

Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association

Marker can be reached from S 12th ...

Bethel Shipyard

With the incorporation of the Lewisville Marine

Railway Company in 1871, Bethel’s reputation as

a center for ship repair and construction was

firmly established. Approximately 40 vessels

were built here before the last ship was

launched in 1918. Many were ...

Company C 194th Tank Battalion

[First Plaque:]

On the morning of February 18th, 1941, one hundred and five brave men of Company C 194th Tank Battalion of the Salinas and Pajaro Valleys marched four abreast down Main Street, through what is now called Old town Salinas, ...

The Temple

The Temple has served as a center for Atlanta's Jewish cultural, educational and social activities since its construction in 1931. It is the home of the city's oldest Jewish congregation--the Hebrew Benevolent Society, established in 1860 to serve the needs ...

Peach Tree Southern Railway (Brookwood Station)

Peachtree Southern Railway, now known as Brookwood Station, is the last passenger terminal in Atlanta, a city which owes its existence to railroads. Representing a fine example of a suburban railroad terminal, it is the work of the eminent Atlanta ...

Former Packing House

In its heyday, Quincy was home to a number of prominent Jewish tobacco growers. Large leaf shade tobacco was a profitable crop in Gadsden County in the 19th and 20th centuries. At that time, shade tobacco leaves were used as ...

Henry Brash House (The Porches)

Henry Brash built this yellow pine house in 1865. The porches were added in 1890. Brash, a Confederate soldier, sponge fisherman and local merchant, and his wife Henrietta raised 11 children in this house. They kashered (ritually cleansed) their dishes ...

Old Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church

2 Miles North East

Organized prior to 1756. Present building constructed 1818—the third on site. First two buildings of logs. Was also used for secular education until 1848. Among early ministers: H. McAden, Jas. Hall, S. Stanford, C. Lindsay.

Marker is at ...

The Cherokee Strip

To commemorate

the Opening

of

The Cherokee Strip

September 16, 1893

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 77 and State Line Road, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 77.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cherokee Strip

September 11, 1893

Thousands of Americans gathered in this township preparing to make the run for homesteads in the Cherokee Strip, a tract of land 58 miles wide, opening 6,500,000 acres for White settlement bought from the Cherokee Nation by the ...