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Nolan County, Texas
Historical Markers in Sweetwater, Texas
Duane tells the stories behind 18 Texas historical markers in Sweetwater, in Nolan County. Each one is hand-told in his own voice, with the official marker text right alongside. Common themes here: Cowboys & Cattle, Native History, Tales of Tragedy, and Civil War. The markers on this list were placed between 1972 and 2003. 7 are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.
Start with these Sweetwater stories
- Site of U. S. Army Air Corps Plane Crashplaced 1999
(0.6 miles east) At 6:05 a.m. on Friday, April 20, 1945, twenty-five Army Air Corps officers and enlisted men left Midland Army Air Field in a C-47…
- W.A.S.P. (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) Training Base: Avenger Fieldplaced 1972
Site of World War II drama. Here girls, like male cadets, learned to fly United States Army Air Forces planes.
- Women Airforce Service Pilotsplaced 1993
Jacqueline Cochran, one to the most famous women pilots of the Twentieth Century, persistently lobbied U.S. Army Airforce General Henry "Hap" Arnold…
- Herefords in Sweetwaterplaced 1972
Organized 1922, the Sweetwater Hereford Breeders Association and Auction Sale (now Sweetwater Area Hereford Association) is considered Texas' third…
- Nolan Countyplaced 1976
Nomadic Indians crossed this region before Anglo-American pioneers arrived here in the 1870's.
- S.D. Myresplaced 1989
Samuel Dale Myres began his career as an apprentice saddle-maker in Cleburne. He moved to Sweetwater in 1898.
Sweetwater on the Texas history calendar
All 18 historical markers in Sweetwater
- Davis House1992
- First Baptist Church of Sweetwater1982
- Herefords in Sweetwater1972
- I.M. (Mose) and Margaret Newman House2003
- Nolan County1976
- R.A. Ragland House1979
- Ragland Building1979
- S.D. Myres1989
- Simmons House1987
- Site of U. S. Army Air Corps Plane Crash1999
- Sweetwater Cemetery1986
- Sweetwater Municipal Auditorium1982
- Sweetwater Reporter1981
- Texas & Pacific Railway1989
- Trammell House1996
- W.A.S.P. (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) Training Base: Avenger Field1972
- W.A.S.P. Training Base: Avenger Field1972
- Women Airforce Service Pilots1993
Historical markers near Sweetwater
- Roby7 stories · 20 mi
- Roby vicinity5 stories · 20 mi
- Hermleigh5 stories · 22 mi
- Merkel6 stories · 23 mi
- Colorado City29 stories · 27 mi
- Anson10 stories · 34 mi
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