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Dedication plaque on the Statue of Liberty copy from Boy Scouts
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: With the faith and courage of their forefathers who made possible the freedom of these United States. The Boy Scouts of America dedicate this copy of the Statue of Liberty as a pledge of everlasting fidelity and loyalty. 40th anniversary crusade to strenghthen the arm of liberty 1950.
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Historic plaque - Midland Man
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE TEXAS THE MIDLAND MAN OLDEST HUMAN REMAINS IN NEW WORLD. FOUND 1953 ON RANCH NEAR HERE BY PIPELINE WELDER KEITH GLASSCOCK. FOSSILIZED SKULL, RIB AND HAND BONES HAD BEEN EXPOSED BY WEATHER CONDITIONS. TESTS INDICATED THESE WERE BONES OF A WOMAN WHO LIVED AS LONG AGO AS 9000 - 9500 B.C.; NEARBY WERE BONES OF EXTINCT SPECIES OF HORSE, SLOTH; WITH WEAPONS, TOOLS AND SIGNS OF ANCIENT CAMPFIRES. DRS. FRED WENDORF AND ALEX D. KREIGER, ARCHAEOLOGISTS; CLAUDE C. ALBRITTON, GEOLOGIST; T.D. STEWART, PHYSICIAN AND ANTHROPOLOGIST, MADE STUDIES OF THE DISCOVERY. (1966)
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Midland County Courthouse
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Midland County Courthouse
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Midland County Courthouse
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Midland County Courthouse
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Midland County Courthouse cornerstone
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: MIDLAND COUNTY TEXAS JUDGE BARBARA G CULVER DURWARD WRIGHT ~ JOHN THOMAS CHARLES WELCH ~ WINFREE BROWN COMMISSIONERS ROSENELLE CHERRY, CLERK ED DARNELL, SHERIFF
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Midland County Courthouse cornerstone
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: MIDLAND COUNTY M.R.HILL, COUNTY JUDGE COMMISSIONERS S.R.PRESTON ~ L.M.ESTES D.L.HUTT ~ H.E.ROBERTS CHAS. L. KLAPPROTH DISTRICT JUDGE A.C.FRANCIS, SHERIFF A.D. 1930
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Midland County Courthouse cornerstone
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: VOELCKER & DIXON INCORPORATED ARCHITECTS. WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS J.O.EVERETT CO. GENL. CONTRACTOR. DALLAS, TEXAS
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Midland County Courthouse cornerstone
Date: unknown
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: COURTHOUSE REMODELED & EXPANDED JAIL FLOOR ADDITION DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 9, 1974
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Midland County Courthouse, historic plaque on grounds
Date: 2005-08-06
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE TEXAS MIDLAND COUNTY (CREATED AND ORGANIZED, MARCH 1885) FIRST KNOWN AS THE JUNCTION OF MANY TRAILS AND SITE OF THE LAST COMANCHE RAID INTO TEXAS. IN 1881 THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILROAD WAS BUILT; EQUI-DISTANT BETWEEN EL PASO AND FORT WORTH, THIS BECAME KNOWN AS MIDLAND. FIRST SETTLER WAS A SHEEPMAN IN 1882. CATTLEMEN CAME WITH HEREFORDS IN 1888. WATER WELLS AND WINDMILLS LURED SMALL FARMERS. BECAME HEADQUARTERS FOR 1928 PERMIAN BASIN OIL DISCOVERY. IN 1945 ITS FIRST WELL CAME IN. THE "MIDLAND MAN", OLDEST SKELETAL REMAINS IN NORTH AMERICA (18,500 B.C.), WAS FOUND IN 1954. (1967)
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Soil map, Midland County, Texas
Date: [1933]
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Description: Map displays soil types along with lakes, ranches, towns, schools, roads, railroads, and land divisions. Includes sketch map showing numbering of sections in Midland County, Texas. Includes legend and symbols.
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