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Mayfield, LadyTexian@tcainternet.com  TX Tombstone Project Manager ************************************************************************ Bowie County Texas Landmarks   1840 - Official State of Texas Historical Marker for Bowie County Erected by State of Texas 1971. Named for James Bowie (1799 - 1836), who fought for Texas Freedom from 1819, when he joined the Long Expedition, to 1836 when he died in defense of the Alamo.  Inhabited before 1800 by agricultural Indians, chartered 1819 for Alglo-American settlement, this was Red River County land when Texas Republic was founded in 1836.  Bowie County was created December 17, 1840, organized February 1, 1841. County seats: Dekalb, Old Boston, Texarkana, and Boston.  Forceful citizens joined in beginning railroad construction in 1857.  Economy is based on agriculture, lumber, manufacturing.   1836 - James Bowie Monument - Erected 1936. Front: James Bowie, Hero of the Alamo.  "They never fail who die in a just cause".  Love of  adventure brought the young South Carolinian to Texas with James Long in 1819.  Romance made of him a Mexican Citizen and won for him in San Antonio a Spanish bride, Ursula Veramendi. Back: Dreams of fabulous wealth lured Bowie to the San Saba region, where he net an unexpected Indian attack with unflinching courage. Against the political and military tyrant who threatened the freedom of Texas, his arm was repeatedly raised until he fell among the last defenders of the Alamo, March 6, 1836.   1541 - Hernando de Soto Erected 1926, Spring Lake Park. Drank from this spring in 1541 - while camping here.  His men mutinied and one was hanged to an oak tree west of the spring.  This tablet erected by Lone Star DAR Chapter (Symb.)   1719 - The French in Texas Erected 1966 - Near edge of Texas Ranch on State Line Ave., Texarkana, N. of Interstate 30. Were explorers and traders about a century. Claimed coastal Texas early as 1685.  When La Salle established his Fort Saint Louis Colony.  Another Fort Saint Louis, among Nassonite Indians a few miles north-west of this marker, was founded in 1719 by French Captain, Bernard de la Harpe, who came up the Red River.  The fort was a center for trade with Cadadocha (Caddoes) of Northeast Texas and the Wichita, Tawakoni, Tonkawe and other tribes of North Texas.  Over 250,000 French and Caddo Indians artifacts have been found near here - including two millstones used in a flour mill near the fort.  Although Spain claimed Texas earlier and during the time of La Harpe, this did not discourage the French.  They traded as far south as the mouth of the Trinity until Louisiana was ceded to Spain in 1762. The chief French influence in East Texas was the Cavalier Saint Denis (1676 - 1744), who controlled Red River area of Louisiana, frequently coming into Texas.  At first he prospected for silver and gold, as Spain had done.  Later he found trading with the Indians was more profitable.  The French had no policy against trading guns to the Indians; partly for that reason they were more popular than the Spanish.     1811 - Rochelle Place Erected 1967 - North of Leary between FM 987 and 2148. On land settled in 1811 and later patented in the Republic of Texas by M. H. James.  Built 1866 by Charles M. Rochelle, husband of Jane's daughter, Elizabeth.  Home of their son, state legislator, William C. Rochelle, and descendants.  Unique fireplace mantle was hand hewn by slaves.   1813 - Trammel's Trace Erected 1965 - Near edge of Texas Ranch on North State Line, Texarkana. Entered Texas at this point, the 1813 road from St. Louis.  Brought in great numbers of pioneers.  Stephen F. Austin, his settlers, Sam Houston, James Bowie, David Crockett and others who died in the Texas Revolution.  >From here pointed southwest.  Crossed the Sulpher at Epperson's Ferry.  Going south to Nacogdoches, linking the Southwest Trail with the Kings Highway to Mexico.  Surveyed by Nicholas Trammel (born Nashville, Tenn. In 1780, died in LaGrange, Texas 1852).  One of a family of U. S. surveyors and scouts.  Mapped many trails, but only this one bears his name.   1825 - Site of Home of Richard Ellis Erected 1936 - 7 miles N. of New Boston on Hwy. 8 in Roadside Park.  A Virginian by birth and education.  Jurist and statesman of Alabama, 1813 - 1825.  Came to Texas 1825.  President of the Constitutional Convention, March 1836, and member of the Congress of the Republic of  Texas.  Born February 14, 1781. Died here December 20, 1846.   1826 - Wavell's Colony Erected by state of Texas 1969. Located Howard Johnson Motor Lodge Park off I - 30, Texarkana, Texas. Projected in 1826 by General Arthur G. Wavell, Scottish born soldier of fortune.  By terms of a Mexican grant, he agreed to introduce 400 - 500 families into an area on the Red River.  Ben Milam, frontiersman, was agent. Many pioneers were actually brought in, but because Mexico and the United States disputed part of the Grant, no titles were ever issued by Wavell.  Some settlers, however, later received titles from the Republic of Texas.  The colony included virtually all of present Bowie, Red River Counties (Tex.) and present Miller Co. (Ark).   1831 - First Disciples of Christ in Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967 - 4 and 1/2 miles North of Texarkana on Hwy. 71 and 59, State Line. Worshipping in 1831 at McKinney's Landing, where the McKinney family and a small group of neighbors met together for informal services.  During the winter of 1841 - 1842, a traveling preacher from Kentucky, G. Gates, organized the congregation into a church.  He later wrote, "I remained with the brethren about a week gathered scattered sheep and constituted a church of 16 members, wit fair prospects for more." First leader of the group was Colin McKinney (1766-1861) who had come with his family from Kentucky to Texas in 1831, when Mexico governed the state.  The worship services he started were in defiance of the laws of Mexico, which demanded the allegiance of each citizen to Catholic religion.  In 1836 he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.  Collin County and the City of McKinney bear his name. Between 1844 and 1846, the McKinney families and neighbors moved their congregation to Mantua, near Van Alstyne, where they met in a wooden church with a four foot wall separating men from women.  Five slaves of the family were members of the Mantua group.  When the railroad built past Van Alstyne, they moved there and organized the First Christian Church, a direct descendent of the 1831 congregation.   1836 - Pecan Point Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence Erected 1969 - Hooks, Stuckey's Park off I-30. Five of the most prominent delegates to Constitutional Convention of Texas, held March 1836, hailed from Pecan Point, in this vicinity.  Richard's Ellis (an attorney and judge) was chosen President of the meeting and later served four terms in the Senate of the Republic.  Collin McKinney (a magistrate) helped draft the Declaration and served three terms in the House.  A. H. Latimer (an attorney) served two terms.  Samuel Price Carson (attorney) became Texas' Secretary of State and Robert Hamilton (financier) was an agent to the United States.     1836 - DEKALB Erected 1966, Westside DeKalb on Main Hwy. In Park. Named for Major General Johann DeKalb - a hero of the American Revolution - upon suggestion (1836) of David Crockett, a visitor on his way to fight in Texas war for independence.  Other Texas heroes traveling through here were James B. Fannin and Wm. B. Travis. Settled in 1831, when land was given for a public school by Dr. W. H. Boyce, Wm. L. Browning, D. M. Chisolm, Clement R. John, and Judge (and Dr.) James W. Smith. Site of first college in Bowie County, founded in 1839 and of Ninth Masonic Lodge in Texas, organized in 1840.  Served as county seat in 1840 - 41.  On two early stage lines.  A stopover for U. S. immigrants to Texas Republic, and 49'ers on way to California gold rush. In 1870's hideouts of train robbers Sam Bass, Jesse James, other notorious characters were nearby.  Texas and Pacific railroad reached here 1876.  Site in 1889 of P. S. Ramseur's sawmill which shipped high quality lumber all over United States; to get logs to mill, he built a railroad, traces of which still exist.  Although in 1896 and 1923 most of businesses  were destroyed by fires, city prospers today.  Center of ranching, truck farming, and pulpwood production. Known as "The Pride of East Texas".   1837 - Site of Epperson's Ferry Erected by the State of Texas 1936. At this crossing constructed by nature and used by the Caddo Indians, early French and Spanish explorers and travelers over Trammel's Trace 1813, 1830.  Mark Epperson, before 1837 constructed a ferry, used until construction of a wooden bridge antedating the modern structure erected 1924. 1956 - This monument was removed to present location when its original site 7 miles southwest was inundated by Lake Texarkana.  Located Hwy. 67, 1 mile NE of Maud.  In 1974, lake was renamed Lake Write Patman for Congressman Patman.   1838 - Stephenson's Ferry Established about 1838 by Joseph A. Stephenson on whose grant it was located and whose name it bore.  It remained in operation until about 1910. Moved to Cass County side of Sulphur River when Bowie site inundated by lake.   1839 - Dalby Springs Methodist Church Recorded Texas Historical Landmark 1965.  11 miles S. of DeKalb off 259 on FM 561. Built of knot less pine lumber in 1888.  First house of worship built by congregation who had been worshiping since 1839 in homes, groves, and school.  During this time the town of Dalby Springs emerged from farmland and grew into a summer health spa.     1840 - Cemetery for Old Harrison Chapel Recorded Texas Historical Landmark 1968. Founded 1840 by Republic of Texas pioneers Charles Moores (1776-1852), and wife Mary Harrison.  Extinct all-faiths chapel where circuit riders served, named for her parents (of South Carolina). This 5 acre family community burial plot contains about 100 graves.  Mary, Charles Moores, and Willis Whitaker were children of American Revolution soldiers; 3 of Moores children were Texas Rangers; 4 men buried here had Republic of Texas head rights.  Cemetery, restored in 1967, is now only evidence of Mooresville (1 mile NW), post office 1841-1866. Moores Landing was on Sulphur River. Incise on back: Erected by Cooper Burgess, Moores, Rosborough, Rochelle, Janes, and Whitaker Descendants.  Located: Redwater, 2 miles E. on Hwy 67, Roadside Park. Cemetery 1 mile NW of Marker.   1841 - Old Boston Recorded Texas Landmark 1966 - Hwy 8 S. of New Boston and FM 2149. Old Boston established while part of Mexico to serve plantations on Red River.  Mail came horseback from Arkansas.  Named for W. J. Boston, first store keeper.  A battalion was formed here to fight in the Texas Revolution. First Bowie County Seat 1841.  Large stores surrounded square and two story brick court house.  Became educational center with five private schools.  Texas Governor Hardin R. Runnels and W. T. Lanham have lived here. New Boston (4 miles north) founded on railroad, 1877, Boston (1 mile south) made county seat 1890.  This became Old Boston.         1841 - Phillip A. Dalby Homestead Recorded Texas Historical Landmark, 1966 - Off 259, 11 miles S. of Dekalb. In Dalby family since 1841.  On land given Dalby by Republic of Texas.  Original room (northeast part of house) is of oak logs pegged together.  Logs and floor boards were hand-hewn. By 1856 Dalby had 8 children.  House, then enlarged, was scene of singings, socials, quiltings, logrollings. Freighters camped in yard. Passed to Phillip Dalby's son, A. J. Dalby, 1872; his grandson, Clyde N. Dalby in 1927.  Remodeled in 1948.   1847 - Home of Eli H. Moores Erected by Descendants and Bowie county Historical Survey Committee. 1609 New Boston Road, Texarkana. Republic of Texas settler, owner of land on which Texarkana was started. ON site of his 1847 home, this 2-story colonial place was built in 175.  Has twice been remodeled, keeping old center hall, enlarging some rooms.  Five generations of Moores, Watts, and Pryor families have lived here. Recorded Texas Historic Land mark, 1964.   1848 - Hooks U.S. 82, West edge of Hooks. Established about 1848 as a supply center for 5,000-acre plantation of Warren Hooks: 1841-160.  Post Office for area was Myrtle Springs, home of Hooks' son, Col. Robert W. Hooks, 11th Texas Calvary, Confederate Army. Post Office placed here 1884 was named for Warren Hooks. Farming continued until 1942, when Hooks "boomed" suddenly. Population soared from 400 to 3,000 with opening f Lone Star and Red River Ordnance Plants. Economy is diversified with cotton and soybean production. A religious town, Hooks has sixteen churches, -(1969). Incise on Back: Erected by Azalea and Iris Garden Clubs, Jaycettes, Business and Professions Women's Club, Bowie County Historical Survey Committee.   1853 - Site of the Home of Hardin R. Runnels 1820-1873 Erected - 1936 6 mi. E. of New Boston on U.S. 82 on U.S. Government Reservation. Governor of Texas, 1857-1859.  The house was built in 1853.  Destroyed by fire 1914.  Here, Governor Runnels died.  He was buried nearby.  His remains were later removed to the State Cemetery at Austin.   1857 - Martha Adams Runnels (March 26, 1836- July 19, 1907) Recorded 1969 - Rose Hill Cemetery, Texarkana, Texas. A first lady of Texas.  Wife of H.W. Runnels, member of Legislature 1857-59.  During these years she and husband lived in Governor's Mansion, where she was the official hostess for her bachelor brother-in-law, Gov. Harding Richard Runnels. Incise on base: Erected by Lone Star Chapter Daughters of American Revolution and Bowie County Historical Survey Committee.   1865 - Harvey C Sanders, C.S.A. (1837-1925) 1965 - 7 mi. N. of New Boston on Hwy 8 in Roadside Park. Native of Kentucky.  In Civil War, fought at Shiloh, Chickamauga and other battles.  After being wounded twice, became a guard at confederate White House. When Richmond fell on April 3, 1865, was placed in escort for the departing president.  Rode 5 weeks toward Florida, where President Jefferson Davis was planning to sail for Mexico to join many other Confederate leaders.  (These Southerners intended to regroup an army, march north to Texas and continue their fight for states' rights.) President Davis and his guards were followed by thieves trying to steal the Confederate treasury, the horses and the wagons.  The assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14 and the offer of a reward $100,000 caused many adventurers to hunt for President Davis.  Just before dawn on May 10, near Irwinsville, Ga., Federals captured him and his party, including 2 Texans, Postmaster-General John H. Reagan and Presidential Aide F. R. Lubbock, a former Governor of Texas.  Mrs. Davis and children were soon freed, but all the men were imprisoned. Sanders was released in a year.  Later, he came to Texas and lived near this site after 1886 -- honored for years as the last man of the Davis bodyguard.     1868 - Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868- April 1, 1917) 1976 - Memorial Park, 901 State Line, Texarkana (Old Library) Black composer Scott Joplin, often called the "King of Ragtime Music," was born in Texarkana, Texas, five years before the town site was platted in 1873. His family lived in this vicinity. His early musical training came from his father, Giles Joplin, an ex-slave who played the fiddle. And mother. Florence Givens Joplin, who played the banjo.  By tradition, a German music teacher realized Joplin's talent and gave his lessons.  Joplin left home at age 14 and wandered through the Midwest entertaining  in saloons and honky-tonks.  In the 1890s, he was one of the originators of Ragtime, a rhythmic new musical form that combined black and white Musical traditions.  Joplin's  "Maple Leaf Rag", published in 1899, launched Ragtime as a national fad.  Joplin defended Ragtime against those who called if frivolous and worked constantly to refine his music, which included over 30 Piano Rags. Demand for Ragtime had declined by 1907, when Joplin died in New York City.  Joplin's background is revealed in his most ambitious work, the Black folk opera, "Treemonisha", set on a plantation "Northeast of the town of Texarkana".  It was not produced until the 1970's, when a revival of Joplin's music inspired public recognition of his genius. Incise on back: Texarkana Joint Bicentennial Commission, Bowie County Historical Commission, Jerry Adkins, Nick Demopulos.       1873 - A 1973 Centennial Birthday City: Texarkana On State Line, Texarkana Chamber of Commerce Building. Founded when Texas & Pacific Railroad platted town site and held sale of lots on December 8, 1873, to open regional shipping point.  Strategically located on famed Indian trail from Mississippi to Mexico, site had already been named (for its Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana trade area) by several persons - a physician, a priest, a surveyor, a medicine show barker, a statesman, and others.  City was incorporated in Texas on June 12, 1874; in Arkansas , October 17, 1880.  It advanced rapidly in business and social facilities.  In a century, it has grown from 40 persons at town site auction to over 52,000. Incise on back:  Sponsored by Texarkana Chamber of Commerce, Convention and Visitors Bureau, Bowie County Historical Survey Committee.     1874 - Rose Hill Cemetery 100 South Lelia street, near Junction of Phenie Ave. with Cotton Belt Tracks, Texarkana One of the oldest cemeteries in Texarkana.  Founded as "City Cemetery" in 1874, shortly after the town was established.  Here lie the remains of some of the cities finest citizens, plantation owners, the livery stable owner, county doctors, lawyers, the cabinet maker, and 2 unknown members of the  Texas Legislature.  About 70 Confederate soldiers and 3 known Union Soldiers are also interred here. Other burials include victims of the 1882 Paragon Saloon disaster, which occurred when a storm caused a nearby building to collapse, thus starting a fire. In 1889 the Rose Hill Cemetery Association was formed to beautify and maintain the tract, a very impressive monument marks the grave of Otis Henry, a young World War I soldier.  The grave of Captain Frances Marion Henry, one of the city fathers and a great-great grandson of American Patriot Patrick Henry, is marked by a Texas Historical Marker.  The center section is reserved for designated soldiers and veterans of World War I & LL from Bowie County, Texas and Miller County, Arkansas.  Many of the older graves are placed in Cement "cradles", a surviving custom of earlier times, as is the secluded atmosphere of the heart-of-town plot.   1874 - Maud United Methodist Church Organized as a Mission by Rev. Thomas Jefferson Milam of old Boston, on farm of Jesse J. Ball, Three Springs Community, August 10, 1874.  Original meeting house was built immediately on Ball's property.  Samuel D. Knapp (1841 - 1922) a charter member, founded town of Maud, and was its first postmaster. He donated present site, and the building was moved here in 1880.  The Mission became a Church in 1897.  A tornado razed second building in 1914.  Present sanctuary, fourth for the church, was erected in 1940 with funds given by Miss Jennie Tapp, and was enlarged in 1956.   1875 - Redwater Redwater intersection U. S. Hwy. 67 and F. M. 991 The first community in this area was Mooresville (2 Miles east), settled in 1840 by  Charles Moored (1776 - 1852) family.  It had disappeared before this town grew up near the Daniels and Spence Sawmill in 1875.  Because of mill workers disregard for religion, the village was first names Ingersoll for the famous agnostic of that day, Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899). A branch of the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railway arrived here in the late 1870's, attracting more upstanding citizens.  William Thomas Fagan built two more sawmills in the early 1880's.  English born Earnest Thomas Page (1860-1937) opened a general store, which also housed the towns first post office (1881).  Church going townspeople objected to the name Ingersoll and suggested changing the name to Red Water, for the color of spring and well water in the area.  A town vote in 1894 made Redwater the official name.  In 1914 a tornado destroyed many businesses here, but Redwater quickly rebuilt.  The economy was based on farming and lumbering until 1941, when the Red River Army Ammunition Depot and Lone Star Ordinance Plant were built just north of town. The opening of the International Paper Mill in the 1970's has created new interest in lumbering and tree farming.   1876 - Francis Marion Henry (December 11, 1832 - April 21, 1911) Rose Hill Cemetery, Texarkana The great-great-grandson of Patrick Henry; served Army of the Confederacy before buying tract in Texarkana about 1873.  Captain Henry was elected to Texas Senate in 1876. Built first brick home in city; donated site for Methodist Church.  A leading city attorney for 34 years, Securing wide reputation as trial lawyer. All business firms of Texarkana closed in respect, at his death.       1876 - New Boston City Parking Lot on Hwy. 82, downtown, New Boston. Established as shipping point when Texas & Pacific Railroad was built across Bowie County in 1870's, drawing business from original town of Boston.  New Boston town site was platted in 1876; its post office opened Jan. 26, 1877, with L. C. Demorse as Postmaster.  Baptists organized Church here in 1880; Methodists, 1883; Church of Christ, 1943.  The first building designed as a school was erected in 1886.  New Boston men who have served in the Texas Legislature: Blair McGee (1889); Norman L. Daley (1909 - 1910); R. M. Hubbard (1929-1931); and Joseph White, Jr. (1939). Incise on back: Marker Sponsors: Veterans of World War I, Bowie County Barracks No. 1657 and their Auxiliary.   1879 - Offenhauser Building Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. 1966 - State Line and 3rd, Texarkana. First brick structure in Texarkana, built about 1879 for First National Bank.  On second floor was Kelsey and Offenhauser Insurance Agency.  Here in 1883, pioneer businessman F. W. Offenhauser, later a leading agent in Texas and Arkansas, wrote his first insurance policy. This building given the Cities of Texakrana by Josh Morriss and Josh R. Morriss, Jr., In memory of Fred W. Offenhauser to house Texarkana's Historical Museum, December 1970. Entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.   1883 - Jones - Tyson House Recorded Texas Landmark, 1965. - 211 Magnolia St., New Boston, Texas North Carolina styling and garden plantings were brought to Bowie County when Jas. W. and Laura Williams Jones built home in 1883.   1884 - Town of Nash Nash, Highway 82, Baptist Church site. Begun about 1873; First named "T. C. Junction" for its location on transcontinental division of Texas & Pacific Railroad.  In 1884 post office was established and named Park, after Dr. J. N. Parker, the first postmaster. First school started 1885 in single room.  New buildings have been erected in 1904, 1924, 1967. In 1906 the town was named in honor of Martin Man Nash, division superintendent of Texas & Pacific.  Noted resident was Dr. Joseph Abner Dodd (1871 - 1944), who served 6 terms in Texas House of Representatives.  Present town population (1976) stands at 2, 000. Inside on back: Nash Chapter, Texas Senior Citizens Association, Bowie County Historical Survey  Committee.     1884 - Henry Moore, Jr. Home Entered in National register, 1976.   Address: 420 Pine, Texarkana. "Ace of Clubs" House.  Has 3 groups of octagonal rooms (leaves of a club) opening on a rotunda backed by long rectangular rooms (the club's stem).  Rotunda has a marble mantel, French mirrors and spiral stairway and is topped with a 20 foot tower. Built 1884 by J. H. Draughan, owned since 1894 by Henry Moore family. Recorded Texas Landmark 1964. This property has been placed on National register of Historic Places by United States Department of Interior.   1891 - Whitaker House Recorded Texas Landmark 1973 - Erected by Emmett Hargett and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Perkins.  517 Whitaker Street, Texarkana. Built before 1891 by Benjamin F. Whitaker (1845 - 1916), member of Texas Senate (1893-1897), partner of his brother in lumber business and a railroad that became part of Kansas City Southern line. He hand picked materials for this residence for his own family. Ex-Sheriff Bryant Hargett and family were living here in 1904 when a "souvenir" book featured the house as a Texarkana showplace. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Perkins now own the property. (Note: House sold again in the 1990's. Perkins family ran an antique store at the location; Whitaker House Antiques, until the sale.  Mr. Perkins died in 1999.   1892 - United States Post Office and Courthouse Recorded Texas Historical Landmark - 1970. 5th and State Line, Texarkana.  Erected by Texarkana Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitor Bureau. Currently, only federal office building to straddle state line.  Present Texas-Arkansas state boundary (established in 1841 by United States and republic of Texas) passes through the center.  Each state had separate post offices until 1892, when first joint office was built on this site.  It was razed in 1930, and in 1933 the present structure was completed.  The base is of Texas pink granite while walls are of limestone from Arkansas.   1899 - Morris-Sheppard (1875-1941) Texarkana National Bank, Broad and State Line, Texakana. In this building was located the law office of Morris Sheppard, Congressman, U. S. senator and for 42 years National Treasurer Woodmen of the World. This marker placed by WOW Camp of Greater Texarkana.   1902 - Old Rialto Building Recorded Texas Historic landmark - 1966. - 317 State Line, Texarkana. Erected 1902 by George Fouke (1843 - 1915), pioneer businessman, leader in lumbering, railroads, electric power, other ventures. Triangular style resembles New York's Flatiron Building, also erected 1902.  One of the earliest Texarkana buildings with electricity.  First used for offices, became apartment hotel.  Was converted by Dr. E. L. Beck in 1934 to Medical Building.  Later property of Dr. N. B. Daniel and Dr. William B. Harrell.   1904 - Hubbard Home Recorded Texas History Landmark - 1967 - 108 Magnolia, New Boston, Texas. Built in 1904 for owner Robert M. Hubbard.  Bayard Witt, architect. Victorian styling, with eight irregular size gables, leaded glass in bay windows. Distinguished visitors have included statesmen and business and social leaders of Texas.  Owner R. M. Hubbard was named to the Texas Highway Commission in 1918 by Governor W. P. Hobby.  He served as Chairman until 1926, and was influential in raising highway department standards. Magnolia House Purchased February 1972 by Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Sturgeon.  Remodeled 1973-74.  Ann Bintliff French,  Architect; Curtis H. Welborn,  Contractor; Glen Kitchens, Supervisor.   1909 - Herman Lee Ensign Fountain Arkansas Garden Club Council Project - 1965-67 Presented by National Humane Alliance, Herman Lee Ensign, founder. Fountain Memorial Park, 7th and State Line. Granite Bench: Fountain is a symbol of a past era, Horses in our Ark-Tex town drank water from fountain at various locations.   1918 - Confederate Memorial Park Erected by Citizens and Captain James T. Rosborough, and United Daughters of the Confederacy. Confederate Soldier Figure Inscription: To our loyal Confederates. Confederate Mother Figure: Inscription, "O Great Confederate Mothers, we would print your names on monuments, that men may read them as the years go by and tribute pay to you, who bore and nurtured hero sons and gave them solace on that darkest hour, when they came home with broken swords and guns".   1918 - World War 1 Monument  (See separate web page)   1918 - The Otis Henry Monument Rose Hill Cemetery, Texarkana.  Front, underneath the young man in soldiers uniform: Corp.. 359 Inf. 90 Div. C. H. Gassed One K. M. S. E. Vil. Of Vincey  Beneath the young man in civilian dress: Otis Henry Beneath figure at left of young man in civilian dress are these words: Remember Remember. Back of Monument: Corporal 359th Inf., 90 Div. Co. H., and Gassed One-Kilometer Southeast of Vincey.  Died October 6, 1918.  Born June 22, 1894, Dennison, Texas.   1931 - Texas Ranger - Dan LaFayette McDuffie (February 16, 1883 - July 7, 1931) Recorded 1967 - Read Hill Cemetery, 1 mile S. of New Boston. Last ranger killed on duty in East Texas Oil Boom of 1930's. A third generation enforcement officer, learned methods, skills from an uncle, Texarkana Police Chief. Held first office at 18. Won fame in 1923 amnesty, when 82 liquor stills were turned in.  Spent 30 years as county peace officer, railroad special agent, and Texas Ranger.  Known for his fearless courage, integrity.  Met death on duty in a kidnapping case, when caught in gunfire.   1950 - World War II and Korean Monument  ((See separate web page)   1963 - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) Erected by Texarkana Citizens. - On State Line in front of U. S. Post Office and Federal Building. From the inaugural address delivered U. S. Capital January 20, 1961 in Washington D. C. "To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists are doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.  If the free society cannot help the many who are poor, it can never save the few who are rich." From the speech to have been delivered at the Texas Welcome Diner, Municipal Auditorium, Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963 - the day of the assassination. "In Texarkana, I pledged in 1960 that our country would no longer engage in a lagging space effort.  That pledge has been fulfilled.  We are not yet first in every field of space endeavor, but we have regained world wide respect for our scientist, our industry, our education and our free initiative.   1965 - Black Cherry Tree Recorded Texas Historical Landmark.  1969. On U. S. Government Reservation, 6 miles East of New Boston. In the early days, source of lumber and shingles.  Bark had medicinal use. This was judged the largest Black Cherry Tree in Texas in 1965.   1966 - Granite Bench Memorial Texarkana Library Grounds, State Line Ave. ((Old Library)) Major Richard E. Steel, U. S. A. Jan. 22, 1933 - Nov. 4, 1965. Ist Cav. Div. Avi. Mobile. Killed in Action in South Vietnam, 1966.  Erected by 1951 Graduating Class of Texas High School, Texarkana.   1968 - Osage Orange Tree 1968 - DeKalb, near Water Tower. Bois D'Arc was used in early Texas for fences, building foundations, paving blocks.  The 153 year old tree is Texas Champion of the species.   PLAQUES AT TEXARKANA RESERVIOR W. A. McCartney Bridge. Wright Patman Lake.   MARKER APPLICATION APPROVED 1976 BY BOWIE CHC FOR SENDING TO TEXAS HC FOR FINAL APPROVAL Saint James Episcopal Church 1895 Moores-Burke-Ragland Home Shipp-McCright-Wilson-Cemetery Burial Site of State Senator J. R. Wilson (1901-1903)   PLAQUES AT FERGUSON PARK, TEXARKANA Given 1933 by Susan F. Sanderson in memory of her father, Wm. T. Ferguson (1847-1927) Collins Memorial Building 1958. PLAQUES AT WADLEY HOSPITAL GROUNDS, TEXARKANA Park given by Mr. and Mrs. Ben Collins.  Fountain gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wadley. ROSS PEROT BOY SCOUT CENTER TEXARKANA - 1970       Arkansas Historical Marker : First Courthouse Lafayette County Located near here, the first seat of Justice for Lafayette County was created in Oct. 1827. The new county included all land between Hempstead County and the Louisiana line from Ouichita River to Western Boundary of Louisiana Purchase.  The Caddo Indians lived west of red river.  Known as Lafayette CH, or LaGrange.  It remained the county seat until 1840 when the seat was moved to Lewisville, now Old Lewisville. 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