On one of first land patents in South Plains, lying along a well-marked Indian trail used by explorers, U.S. Army, and (after 1880) the stages and freighters northbound from Colorado City,
Grasslands Ranch (named for an estate of President . . . — — Map (db m162087) HM
Sculpted 2003 by Charles A. Smith for
Gid Moore to honor Longfellow’s
“The Arrow & the Song,” & Inspired 88
Quanah Parker Trail Arrows, 2011-18 — — Map (db m246394) HM
Named for Tom J. O'Donnell, promoter of South Plains Railroads, including 60 miles of Santa Fe Line from Slaton to Lamesa. On this new railroad (important as freight hauler) town of O'Donnell was founded in 1909 by H. E. Baldridge and Charles H. . . . — — Map (db m110306) HM
Comanches ascended the high plains at points NE and S of O'Donnell, using Mooar's draw and TJF draw. Arrow Sculptor: Charles A. Smith — — Map (db m174135) HM
Comanches traveling f/w on Tahoka Lake Trail camped in the canyons east of present-day O'Donnell. Arrow sculptor: Charles A. Smith — — Map (db m174093) HM
Farmer and rancher A. J. Warren (1870-1933) moved to this area in 1902 and helped to organize Lynn County in 1903. He built this 2-story brick and concrete edifice in 1925 to house the First National Bank, chartered that year. Competition from . . . — — Map (db m110307) HM
Known as Buffalo Soldiers, African American troops played vital role on the western frontier following the Civil War on July 26, 1877, Buffalo Soldiers of Company A, 10th Cavalry left Double Lakes in Lynn County in pursuit of a Comanche party. The . . . — — Map (db m162082) HM
Created 1876 from Bexar Territory. Name honors G. W. Lynn, "One of those who baptized the altar of Texas with life blood at the Alamo". Tahoka Lake and Double Lakes Springs were watering places on Indian, Spanish, U. S. Army and cattle-driving . . . — — Map (db m110341) HM
In 1876 the Texas legislature created Lynn County, which organized in 1903 with Tahoka as county seat. A two-story frame structure on this site served as courthouse until citizens approved a bond election for the current building in Jul. 1915. . . . — — Map (db m110344) HM
New Moore was a rural farming community established on the site of the Singleton Slash L Ranch in 1924. Samuel F. Singleton came to Texas in the 1870s. He met Marion Virgil ‘Pap’ Brownfield and they settled sixteen sections of land along the . . . — — Map (db m174138) HM
Lynn County's lakes and playas once were favorite camp sites for Quanah Parker and nomadic Indians Arrow sculptor: Charles A. Smith — — Map (db m174085) HM
In Dec. 1902, over 100 people met around a bonfire in a ravine to the southwest of Tahoka Lake and voted to petition for county organization and to select a townsite for a county seat to be named "Tahoka," an Indian word meaning "fresh water", Early . . . — — Map (db m110349) HM
Located south of the townsite of Wilson, Green Memorial Park
Cemetery was established as part of the farming community of
Wilson. In 1906, William Green and his associates from Shiner,
Texas, purchased land and a short time later Green and . . . — — Map (db m174142) HM
At or near this spot, Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, with two companies of United States 4th Cavalry, was overtaken on Dec. 4, 1874, by a snowstorm. Forced to spend the night here without wood or water, or grass for the horses, troops called this the . . . — — Map (db m110539) HM
A prehistoric road discovered and used by Indians, Spaniards, United States Army units, and cattle drovers. It crossed the Llano Estacado from Gholson Spring (7 mi. E. of present-day Slaton), to Tahoka Lake (3 mi. S. of Wilson), then to Tobacco . . . — — Map (db m110538) HM
Founded 1910 by William Green, son of a family who settled in South Texas more than a century ago. The townsite was part of four leagues of Wilson County school lands bought 1906 by Green and Associates.
Green later bought out his associates, . . . — — Map (db m110537) HM