DUANE
Nolan County, Texas
Historical Markers in Sweetwater, Texas
Duane tells the stories behind 5 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: Native History and Tales of Tragedy. The markers on this list were placed between 1972 and 1999.
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…
- Nolan Countyplaced 1976
Nomadic Indians crossed this region before Anglo-American pioneers arrived here in the 1870's.
- W.A.S.P. Training Base: Avenger Fieldplaced 1972
Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trained here in military aircraft during World War II, from February 21, 1943, through final graduation day…
Sweetwater on the Texas history calendar
All 5 historical markers in Sweetwater
Historical markers near Sweetwater
- Colorado City15 stories · 26 mi
- Snyder27 stories · 34 mi
- Robert Lee6 stories · 39 mi
- Abilene22 stories · 40 mi
- Winters7 stories · 44 mi
- Ballinger7 stories · 55 mi
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