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Texas & Pacific Railway Depot plaque, Baird

Description: TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION TEXAS OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MEDALLION TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY DEPOT IN 1881, THE FIRST STORY OF THIS BRICK DEPOT WAS BUILT AS A STATION FOR THE TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY. TWO YEARS LATER, A SECOND FLOOR WS ADDED TO THE STRUCTURE, AND THE NEW RAILROAD TOWN OF BAIRD WAS CHOSEN CALLAHAN COUNTY SEAT. THE RENAISSANCE REVIVAL DEPOT, WHICH FEATURES DECORATIVE BRICKWORK, WAS USED BY THE RAILROAD UNTIL 1977. ITS PRESENCE IS A REMINDER OF THE TOWN'S IMPORTANCE AS A SHIPPING POIN… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
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Confederate Memorial, Callahan County

Description: Photograph of the historic marker for Camp Pecan in Baird, Texas. The stone marker is on the courthouse lawn; buildings are visible in the background. Text: Camp Pecan C. S. A. This Civil War camp of the Texas Frontier Regiment was located 21 mi. southeast established in 1862 as one of a line of posts a day's horseback ride apart. The number of men guarding the frontier were few. Trouble came from all directions with Indian threats and raids from the west and plundering renegades and deserter… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.394862664230764 -99.40056633306574

War memorial - Callahan County

Description: World War I Thomas H. Aiken Benjamine C. Barclay Eugene C. Bell Mcdonald Bell Bruce B. Bush Thomas G. Brashear Bart Coppinger Roy R. B. D'spain Virgil T. Farrar Leonard M. Grisham John Murray Gunn Norman Johnson Orion A. Keele John B. Mullican W. Tom Peevy Wendell H. Russell John W. Slough Jr. R. Lee Wilson World War II Afton C. Adams Wade Andrews Harrell T. Arledge James C. Bentley Albert H. Bales Dewey Douglas Bennett James A. Bently Lindy Bowen C. A. Burleson Jr. Jimmy Brandon Clarence A. B… more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

Historic plaque - Callahan County Courthouse

Description: Photograph of a historic plaque about the Callahan County Courthouse. It reads: "Callahan County Courthouse. The county seat moved from Belle Plain to Baird in 1883, and a courthouse, designed by noted architect F. E. Ruffini, was built at this site. The county hired another noted architect, J. Riely Gordon, in 1900 for a larger courthouse; J. E. Flanders was the supervising architect. In 1928, the growing county hired Voelcker & Dixon Architects & Engineers of Wichita Falls, who designed this … more
Date: August 7, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.394873860075954 -99.4005426
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