The Smith Building

(Palace Hotel)

J. Frank Smith constructed this commercial building in 1906, the year Canyon was incorporated as a town. Elected to the first city board of alderman, Smith operated a land company on the second floor. The ground floor was initially ...

Randall County World War I Memorial

To those who offered their lives

in humanity's defense

in the War of the Nation

and in memory of those

of Randall County

who gave their last full measure

of devotion

Archie Key • Clifford Dooley • Willie A. Floyd • Randall Moreland • Warren Muchison • ...

World War and Veterans Memorial

Memorial

A tribute to

Woodson County's

Soldiers and Sailors

of the World War

and Veterans of

All Wars U.S.A.

Marker is at the intersection of State Street and Butler Street, on the right when traveling north on State Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cumming School

Built 1923

Cumming School, erected in 1923 by J. W. Fleming and Jim Hughes to house students in grades 1 through 11, burned in 1927. The same contractors rebuilt the structure.

The school served all grades until 1955, when high school ...

Downtown Galesville Historic District

First platted in 1854, the commercial district surrounding the public square is still the heart of downtown Galesville. Most buildings date from the 1880s to the early 20th century and feature a two-story brick facade, tall narrow windows and elaborate ...

Randall County

Formed from Young and Bexar

Territories

Created, August 21, 1876

Organized, July 27, 1889

Named in honor of

Horace Randall

1821-1864

A distinguished Confederate

officer who fell in battle at the

head of his brigade

Canyon, the county seat

Marker is on 4th Avenue (Texas Route 217) east of 15th Street, ...

Co. F, 2nd Bn., 142nd Inf., 36th Div., Texas National Guard

The 36th Division of the U.S. Army served with distinction in World War II. When mobilized, Company F of the Division's 142nd Infantry consisted primarily of Randall County soldiers, including ten sets of brothers, as well as a father and ...

Site of an Early Barbed Wire Fence in the Panhandle

In the latter 1880's, when fencing was needed in the treeless Texas Panhandle, the solution proved to be barbed wire. Joseph F. Glidden of Illinois devised and by 1876 was manufacturing (with I.L. Ellwood) the first really practical barbed wire ...

Ball's Crossroads

This intersection has been a focal point since about 1740, when two roads were developed, one from the future site to Alexandria to the mouth of Pimmit Run, the other from Awbury’s Ferry (at the site of Rosslyn) to the ...

Ballston

By 1900 a well-defined village called Central Ballston had developed in the area bounded by the present Wilson Boulevard, Taylor Street, Washington Boulevard, and Pollard Street. More diffuse settlement extended westward to Lubber Run and southward along Glebe Road to ...