The Baylor Massacre

Here as they slept at dawn on Sept. 28, 1778 Col. Geo. Baylor and 116 Virginia Dragoons were attacked by the British under General "No Flint" Grey. Major Clough, Surgeon George Evans, with fifty other Colonial troopers were killed.

Marker is ...

Lincolnville Center

Lincolnville Center was a busy place in the 19th Century with three general stores, two blacksmith shops, a couple of sawmills, several shoemaking shops, a one-room school, two churches and a wheelwright shop. In 1904 the Lincolnville Telephone Company was ...

Dusenbery Mansion House

Circa 1792

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Musconetcong River Road (County Route 645), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Near this Site in 1770

Nathan & Lydia Knight built a log cabin and became the First Settlers of Canaan Plantation which in 1802 was incorporated as Lincolnville

Marker is at the intersection of Belfast Road (Maine Route 52) and Joy Road, on the right when ...

Pioneer Cottage

Built in 1903, one year after county was organized, by settlers Wiley Vincent and wife Katie. This small early Texas cabin has 2 rooms. In 1907, huge prairie fire missed it by only 600 yards.

The cabin was bought in 1920 ...

Woody Guthrie

American folk musician Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie (1912-1967) moved to Pampa from his native Oklahoma at age 17. Here he learned to play the guitar and joined with other musicians to perform for area events. Guthrie briefly attended Pampa High ...

Gray County

Formed from Young and Bexar

Territories

Created August 21, 1876

Organized May 27, 1902

Named in Honor of

Peter W. Gray

1819–1874

Member of the First Legislature

of Texas

Member of the Confederate Congress

Appointed to the Texas Supreme

Bench in 1874

County seat, Lefors, 1902

Pampa, since 1928

Marker is on East Frederick ...

Fort Donnally/Border Heroes

Fort Donnally

Built by Andrew Donnally a few miles north about 1771. Attack on this fort by 200 Indians in 1778 was second most important frontier engagement in the State. The fort was relieved by force under Colonel John Stuart.

Border ...

Abraham Vandal

Plaque One

Abraham Vandal

1758-1848

* Born in Dutchess, NY

* Soldier in the American Revolutionary War 1776-1781

* Married Mary Dillon 1780

* Father of Eight Children

* Early Fayetteville Settler

* In 1812 Abraham purchased 200 acres, including the present site of Fayetteville

Plaque Two

New York ...

Indirect Firing

Nearby on May 19-20, 1863, Corp. Milton W. Humphreys, gunner in Bryan's Battery, 13th Virginia Light Artillery, C.S.A., made first use of indirect artillery fire in warfare. Target was Union fort in Fayetteville.

Marker is on Nickelville Road (County Route 19/1) ...