Alley in Breckenridge
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Alley scene in Breckenridge
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Breckenridge City Offices
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Breckenridge City Offices
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Camp Breckenridge C. S. A. Monument
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Camp Breckenridge C. S. A. Established near this site 1862. Part Confederate Frontier defense line from Red River to Rio Grande occupied by company of Texas frontier regiment. Posts were day's horseback ride apart and area patrolled regularly. Duties included curbing Indian raids, rounding up draft evaders and renegades. Confederates were poorly fed, clothed and lacked horses, ammunition. They shared few of the glories of the war, but at the cost of the lives of not a few of them. These men gave a measure of protection to a vast frontier area, A memorium to the Texans who served the confederacy. Erected by the State of Texas 1963.
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Country Cousins Craft Mall sign - Breckenridge
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Sign shaped like a cow - Country Cousins Craft Mall
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Doorway to the 1883 Stephens County Courthouse
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Doorway to the 1883 Stephens County Courthouse
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Doorway to the 1883 Stephens County Courthouse
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Doorway to the old Stephens County Courthouse
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Doorway to the 1883 Stephens County Courthouse, detail
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Doorway to the 1883 Stephens County Courthouse, detail. Engraved with the names E. L. Walker, M. D. Rhea, S. S. Cook, and I T. Crawford.
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Doorway to the 1883 Stephens County Courthouse, detail
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Doorway to the 1883 Stephens County Courthouse, detail. Engraved with the name J. E. Flanders, architect, Dallas, Texas.
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Historic Plaque, Stephens County Courthouse
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Stephens County Courthouse. This ornate doorway was main entrance of the three-story red sandstone courthouse built here in 1883. Carved into these columns are the names of Architect J. E. Flanders, County Judge E. L. Walker, and three of the four commissioners. The fourth was omitted because he objected to the cost of the construction. A large cistern at the rear of the building provided water for the town. When the oil boom of the 1920s attracted more people to this area, and the old structure was replaced by a larger courthouse in 1926, this portal was left as a reminder of the county's pioneer heritage. (1975)
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Historic Plaque, Walter Prescott Webb's Formative Years
Date: April 14, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Walter Prescott Webb's Formative Years . Noted historian Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) came with his family to Stephens County at the age of four. Over the next seventeen years, Webb received an education in frontier left that formed the basis of his intellectual development and his theories on the role of the Great Plains in American history. Webb's father, Casner, was a rural schoolteacher and farmer. As he moved to different teaching assignments, the family moved with him. W. P. Webb thus was exposed to the physical geographical variety within the county that was so important to his western thesis. His neighbors were prime sources of frontier lore. Although Webb's public school experiences were infrequent, it was during these formative years in Stephens County that he developed his love of books and his desire to attend college. Also during this time, Webb was contacted by William Hinds of New York, who was to become his benefactor and a great source of encouragement for the young scholar. In 1906 Walter P. Webb received his teaching certificate and spent the next three years as a rural educator. In 1909, at the age of 21, Webb left his home in Stephens County to ...
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