WW I Memorial

Erected to the Memory of

those who served in the

--World War--

-- 1917 - - - 1918 --

Valley Post 77

Marker is on Gregg Highway (State Road 859), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bakersfield Californian

Home of

The Bakersfield Californian

Erected by

Alfred Harrell

1925

Marker is on Eye Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hemphill County

Formed from Young and Bexar

Territories

Created August 21, 1876

Organized July 5, 1886

Named in honor of

John Hemphill, 1809-1862

First Chief Justice of the Supreme

Court of the State of Texas

Adjutant General of the

Somervell Expedition

Member of the first

State Constitutional Convention

Member of the United States Congress

Canadian, ...

Canadian River Trails

Trade, exploration and hunting trails along the Canadian are older than recorded history—old when used 1541 by Spaniard Coronado hunting golden cities of Cibola. Route in 1840 for Josiah Gregg and 34 Missouri men with goods worth $25,000 headed for ...

Lipscomb County

Formed from Young and

Bexar Territories

Created, August 21, 1876

Organized June 6, 1887

Named in honor of

Abner S. Lipscomb, 1789-1856

Secretary of State

in President Lamar's cabinet

Member of the Constitutional

Convention, 1845

Associate justice of the first

Supreme Court of Texas

Lipscomb, the county seat

Marker is at the intersection ...

Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell

(1902-2004)

Margaret Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell was born to a Moravian family in North Carolina, where her upbringing and education led her to devote her life to seeking educational opportunities for others. She served as dean of Staunton's Mary Baldwin College and ...

Tinner Hill

An early rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded here on Tinner Hill. In 1915, the Town of Falls Church proposed an ordinance to segregate black and white residential sections. Local African ...

Claude A. Swanson

A native of Pittsylvania County, Claude Augustus Swanson (1862-1939), practiced law in Chatham until he won election to Congress in 1892. He served seven terms in the House of Representatives (1893-1906); was governor of Virginia (1906-1910) and United States senator ...

Whitmell P. Tunstall

One mile east stands Belle Grove, the home of Whitmell Pugh Tunstall (1810-1854). Educated at Danville Academy and the University of North Carolina, Tunstall was admitted to the bar in 1832. He served in the House of Delegates (1836-1841; 1845-1848) ...

Stratford Junior High School

On February 2, 1959, Stratford Jr. High became the first racially integrated school in Virginia. The long battle to integrate Virginia's public schools followed the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which held that racially ...