Palo Pinto County Historical Markers

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY- 53

HAVE- 24 NEED-29

 Named for the Palo Pinto Stream with the county seat also Palo Pinto. We have only explored maybe half of this county, we have yet to visit the northeastern towns of Mineral Wells and Graford. We also have not actually stayed in Palo Pinto only visited as part of a bigger trip to this region. I will say I have heard great things about the chicken fried steak at Mary's Cafe in Strawn and when we were their the locals seemed to agree as the car park was full. I do wish we had more time at Possum Kingdom State Park but for this trip it was a quick photo op only. 
    As to historical markers thus far the Texas Historical Commission lists a marker for Strawn drugstore I believe was never dedicate but have written to the Palo Pinto Historical Commission to confirm. We also failed to locate the marker for the Site of the Snake Saloon with I have seen pictures of so I'm hoping we just missed it but am afraid it fell foul to misadventure. We didn't find the marker for William Whipple Johnson which was reported missing in 2009. 
   November 8th, 2017- Palo Pinto Historical Commission report that the Site of Snake Saloon and the marker for William Whipple Johnson were replaced and as suspected the Strawn Drugstore never actually had a marker, nor for that fact does the first Christian Church of Mineral Wells. 

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Alfred Lane
Bethel Strawn, C. S. A. 
Black Springs
Black Springs Cemetery
Brad Cemetery
Charles Goodnight
Civillian Conservation Corps at Possum Kingdom State Park 
Comanche Trail Through Palo Pinto County
Courthouses of Palo Pinto County 
Dr. H. H. Milling
Elmwood Cemetery
Famous Mineral Water Company 
First Baptist Church of Mineral Wells
First Baptist Church of Palo Pinto
First Baptist Church of Santo 
First Christian Church
First Christian Church of Mineral Wells
George Rice Bevers Homesite 
George Webb Slaughter 
Hittson Cemetery
Hittson Cemetery
Home of Oliver Loving
Home of Stephen Bethel Strawn 
James Nesbit Stuart House 
Jonathan Hamilton Baker 
Joseph Peter Davidson
Mary Jane Gentry
Mineral Wells
Mineral Wells High School 
Mingus Baptist Church 
Morris Sheppard Dam and Possum Kingdom Lake - A Project of the Brazos River Authority 
Mount Marion Cemetery
Old Camp Wolters
Old County Jail 
Old Mineral Wells Post Office 
Palo Pinto Cemetery
Palo Pinto County 
Palo Pinto Methodist Church 
Pickwick-McAdams Cemetery
Reuben Vaughan 
Robinson School 
Rock Schoolhouse
Sam Savage, Captive of the Comanches
Santo East Cemetery
Simpson Crawford
Site of Snake Saloon 
Site of the Home of Oliver Loving in 1855
Strawn
Strawn City Hall 
Thomas House 
Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railway Depot 
​William Whipple Johnson