- Historic plaque - Nolan County
- TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION TEXAS NOLAN COUNTY NOMADIC INDIANS CROSSED THIS REGION BEFORE ANGLO-AMERICAN PIONEERS ARRIVED HERE IN THE 1870S. THE FIRST SETTLERS WERE BUFFALO HUNTERS SUCH AS I.S. (TUCK) FOCHT, WHO LATER BECAME A RANCHER AND BUSINESSMAN, AND CATTLEMEN SUCH AS CONFEDERATE VETERAN JOHN R. LEWIS. CREATED IN 1876, NOLAN COUNTY WAS ONE OF 54 COUNTIES CARVED FROM BEXAR TERRITORY. IT WAS NAMED FOR PHILIP NOLAN (1771-1801), AN IRISH-BORN ADVENTURER WHO CAME TO TEXAS TO CAPTURE WILD HORSES AND WAS KILLED IN A SKIRMISH WITH SPANISH SOLDIERS. SWEETWATER, A SMALL SETTLEMENT THAT HAD GROWN UP AROUND A GENERAL STORE, WAS AWARDED THE COUNTY'S FIRST POST OFFICE IN MARCH 1879. IT WAS ALSO NAMED THE COUNTY SEAT WHEN NOLAN COUNTY WAS ORGANIZED IN JANUARY 1881. SWEETWATER MOVED 2 MILES NORTHWEST TO ITS PRESENT LOCATION ON THE TEXAS & PACIFIC RAIL LINE IN APRIL 1881. IT BECAME AN IMPORTANT RAIL CENTER WHEN THE KANSAS CITY, MEXICO & ORIENT AND LATER THE SANTA FE RAILROAD ALSO ROUTED THEIR TRACK THROUGH THE TWON. THE ECONOMY OF NOLAN COUNTY IS BASED ON CATTLE AND SHEEP RANCHING; COTTON AND FEED GRAIN CROPS; AND GYPSUM, LIME, AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTION. THE POPULATION OF THE COUNTY INCREASED FROM 640 IN 1880 TO 16,220 IN THE 1970 CENSUS. (1975) texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5293/
- Historic plaque - R. A. Ragland House
- TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION TEXAS OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MEDALLION R. A. RAGLAND HOUSE IN 1882 R. A. RAGLAND (1858 - 1938) CAME TO SWEETWATER AS ONE OF THE TOWN'S FIRST LAWYERS. HE SERVED AS CITY COMMISSIONER, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER AND COUNTY ATTORNEY. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH R. C. CRANE HE SET UP A LAW OFFICE AND ABSTRACT FIRM. IN 1906 HE HAD THIS HOUSE BUILT FOR HIS WIFE LUELLA MADDOX RAGLAND. THE HOME IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE CLASSICAL REVIVAL STYLE. THE CHAPEL AND BRICK ADDITION TO THE FRONT WERE BUILT WHEN THE RESIDENCE SERVED AS A MORTUARY. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK - 1979. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5277/
- Honor Roll World War II, Nolan County
- HONOR ROLL WORLD WAR II MARION WILLIAM JUSTICE J.R.KISER KENNETH B. LANCE JAMES F. LEACH FRED H. LEONARD ANTON MACK RAYMOND W. MAY J.C. McCOY QUINN L. McKELVEY MURL MONTGOMERY JAMES W. MOOR HOMER G. NEITHERCUTT TROY W. NORRIS PHILIP J. OCHOA MALCOM OMAR COOK DAYTON S. O'KEEFE WILLIE W. OLIVER JAMES F. O'NEIL LEON OVERBY WILLIAM H. PIETZSCH A.J. ROY FRED SCUDDAY, JR. JOHNNY LEON SEALY LEROY SHIFFLETT JOHN J.S.SMITH SCREVEN SMITH ROBERT M. SNYDER RAYMOND L. STEPHENSON BILL SAUNDERS JAMES F. LEWALLEN AUBREY T. STEWART WILLARD D. TAYLOR ENNIS C. VOGLER JAMES H. WALKER, JR. JOHN E. WALKER L.H. WHITTINGTON ENOCH A. WHITTINGTON EDWARD WILKINS, JR. CHARLES RAY WILKINSON CHARLES H. WILLIAMS ALTON B. WILSON SPEEGLE J. WOOD EDGAR R. WOODSON MARK YOAKUM FRED P. PIPKIN JR. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5288/
- Honor Roll World War II, Nolan County
- HONOR ROLL WORLD WAR II JOSE A. ALCALA NORMAN P. ALSTON WALTER P. ANDERSON, JR. ROBERT ANTHONY ODIS L. APPLE, JR. JAMES W. BARKLEY JOHNNY C. BELT OSCAR A. BENNETT JAMES LEE BERRY WINSTON J. BRADFORD ARLIN W. BROWN DEVERLE BROWN EARL A. BRYANT WILLIAM R. BURKETT EARL BROWN BROWN THOMAS B. R.C. CHAPMAN ROY CLAY, JR. VALTON C. CLAYTON CHESTER V. CRAIN EDWARD E. DAVIS NEAL C. DAVISON, JR. OLLIE G. DISMUKE JESS W. DOOLEY TROY R. DOOLEY JIMMIE DOYLE SIE S. EDWARDS JACK C. ELLISTON FOREST F. GARTMAN RAYMOND GEORGE BILLY B. GIBBS WILLIE E. INCRAM LEROY GIESLER JAMES V. GILLENWATER THOMAS T. GILLILAN THOMAS P. GLASS ERNEST W. HAGAR JAMES A. HALL DAVID HANKS ALFRED C. HARRIS BURNHARD K. HART LEE R. HILL HAROLD G. HUDGINS ROBERT L. HYDE WILLIAM D. JOHNSON MATIAS M. JUAREZ JOHNNY M. HURD CHARLIE H. McCORMICK texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5289/
- Honor Roll World War II, Nolan County
- on center piece: HONORING ALL WHO SERVED FROM NOLAN COUNTY AND DEDICATED TO THE EVERLASTING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES ON THE ALTAR OF FREEDOM IN WORLD WARS I AND II. KOREA. VIETNAM. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5290/
- Mural in Sweetwater
- Mural in Sweetwater, train depot and engine "Orient Express" texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5280/
- Mural in Sweetwater
- Sweetwater. est. 1881. Mural in Sweetwater with horses and a windmill. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5282/
- Mural in Sweetwater
- Mural in Sweetwater, 1888 courthouse texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5281/
- Murals in Sweetwater
- Sweetwater texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5283/
- Nolan County Courthouse, Sweetwater
- Nolan County Courthouse texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5287/
- Nolan County Courthouse, Sweetwater
- Nolan County Courthouse texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5294/
- Pioneer Museum, Sweetwater
- PIONEER MUSEUM, Sweetwater texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5278/
- Pioneer Museum, Sweetwater
- PIONEER MUSEUM, Sweetwater. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5279/
- Plaque - R. A. Ragland House
- THIS HOME WAS ORIGINALLY THE RESIDENCE OF THE LATE JUDGE AND MRS. R. A. RAGLAND AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN. IT WAS BUILT IN 1906 AND SOLD AFTER THE DEATH OF JUDGE RAGLAND. A GRANDSON, ROBERT A. RAGLAND OF EL PASO, BOUGHT THE PROPERTY AND GAVE IT TO THE CITY AND COUNTY IN 1976 TO BECOME THE CITY-COUNTY PIONEER MUSEUM. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5276/
- Sweetwater Municipal Building
- Sweetwater Municipal Building texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5286/
- Sweetwater Municipal Building
- Sweetwater Municipal Building detail texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5285/
- Texas Bank and Trust Company, Sweetwater
- TEXAS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5284/
- Texas theatre, Sweetwater
- Texas Theatre, showing Fantastic 4 texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5292/
- WWII Memorial, Nolan County
- TEXAS 36 DEDICATED TO THE VALIANT MEN OF CO. E 142ND. INF. TEXAS 36TH. DIV. MOST DECORATED DIV. OF WWII MOBILIZED NOV. 25, 1940 IN SWEETWATER, TEXAS MAY 17, 1986 texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5291/