Parker County, Texas Those interviewed differ concerning the data of this difficulty, but it evidently occurred sometime during 1866. One Sunday morning, Rev. Nehemiah Vernon was conducting religious services in the Terrapin Neck Community, about...
Kerr County, Texas During 1873 Jack Harding, an African boy, about twelve years of age, was returning from mill with corn meal, and captured on Cherry Creek, in Kerr County, about five miles southeast of Center Point. The savages then went about...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps (Belton) Bell | (Bryan) Brazos | (Caldwell) Burleson | (Gatesville) Coryell | (Marlin) Falls | (Fairfield) Freestone | (Anderson) Grimes |...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps (Palestine) Anderson | (Lufkin) Angelina | (Boston) Bowie | (Pittsburg) Camp | (Linden) Cass | (Rusk) Cherokee | (Houston) Crockett | (Mount...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps (Brownwood) Brown | Callahan | (Robert Lee) Coke | Coleman | Comanche | Paint Rock) Concho | Eastland | Erath | (Roby) Fisher | Haskell |...
In February of 1873, Jesse Veale was the last victim of an Indian attack on the mouth of the Ioni in Palo Pinto County. Citizens searched the countryside around Bluff Creek and the Belding Ranch, discovering Veale's body as well as those of...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps Atascosa | Bandera | (San Antonio) Bexar | (Johnson City) Blanco | Burnet | (New Braunfels) Comal | Frio | (Fredricksburg) Gillespie | (San...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Apacheria 16 June 1868, Fort McDowell, Arizona: Sgt. J. Lemon and four privates of Company E, 1st Cavalry, were assigned to carry mail from Camp Reno, in the Tonto Basin, to Camp McDowell, about 25...
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