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Salute to Our Fallen Heroes Project
Every day
is memorial day to a soldier. This project is our way of
honoring all of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our
freedom.
Our thoughts and prayers are
with the family members and loved ones of those that gave their
lives to fight for our country.
May God give you peace in your heart and strength to carry on.
They proudly served their country.
Now, they proudly serve with angel's wings.
Tribute to Our Veterans
Every day should be Veterans
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reflect, and thank those who serve in our armed forces, both
past and present? This project is our way of honoring all
Veterans who served his or her country for our freedom. Thank
you and God Bless!
Sharing with others
If you have family history, stories, photos, books, marriages, births &
death records. Newspaper clippings such as obits, birth, wedding,
military, wills or other data about Wilkes County. Send the files to me
and I will upload it. Your help is greatly appreciated!
Add your family surnames so others can contact
you. A great way to find more information and meet new cousins! Send me an
E-Mail
include your surnames and I will add them.
News!!!
Pioneer of Archer County Maggie
Holt Simpson once ran the Hotel in Holliday. The Hotel is soon to receive a
historical Marker. Read the Story of Maggie Holt
Simpson.
Counties Surrounding
Archer County
Communities of Archer
County
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Anarene |
Archer City |
Bowman |
Dads Corner
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Dundee |
Geraldine
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Lakeside City |
Mankins |
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Megargel
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North Star |
Scotland |
Texhoma City |
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Windthrost |
HISTORY
Before white settlement, Apaches, Wichitas, Tawakonis,
Kichais, Caddoes, Comanches, and later Kiowas camped and
hunted in the area now known as Archer County. Spaniards and
Anglos crossed through the area at various times, and in the
eighteenth century French traders operated a post close to
the two small mesas in the west central area later called
Little Arizona. Kichais defeated the Texas Rangers
in the battle of Stone Houses
in southeastern Archer County in 1837, and Kiowas led by
Kicking Bird defeated
United States cavalrymen led by Capt. Curwen B. McClellan in
the battle of the Little Wichita River
in the northwestern part of the county in 1870. On January
22, 1858, the Texas legislature marked off Archer County
from Clay County and named it in honor of Republic of Texas
commissioner Branch Tanner Archer.
No settlers had yet arrived. By 1875, however, the United
States Army had driven all the Indians from North Texas and
the area was open to settlement.
In 1874 the first
American settler, Dr. R. O. Prideaux, originally from
England, settled on the West Fork of the Trinity River in
southeastern Archer County. He had observed that the buffalo
he had shot there were fat. Soon other cattlemen and farmers
moved in, and scattered herds of longhorn cattle
were introduced to different parts of the county's
grasslands. For more see..
Handbook of Texas Online
CHALLENGE TO ALL VISITORS:
I would
also like to Challenge each visitor to
adopt one Veteran of any War to post a
small Biography or Photo. I want to
honor all of those who have fought for
our Freedom...
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