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[Historic Marker Application: John E. Gardner Place] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: John E. Gardner Place]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the John E. Gardner Place, in Big Lake, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: 1966
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bulletin from the Eastside Church of Christ] (open access)

[Bulletin from the Eastside Church of Christ]

A copy of a bulletin from the Eastside Church of Christ's open house excerpting Blanche Perry's interpretation of the baptistry painting, introducing Eastside's minister, Douglas G. Young, listing church elders and deacons, and giving a brief history of the Eastside Church of Christ.
Date: June 19, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dowes of Pinto Canyon (open access)

The Dowes of Pinto Canyon

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Orin Curtis Dowe and Millie Wilson Dowe of Pinto Canyon, who met while O. C. Dowe was a Texas Ranger attempting to capture smugglers crossing the Mexico-Texas border.
Date: November 21, 1966
Creator: Shurley, Mike
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-591 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-591

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the predesignation to the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation by Governor Connally as the agency for administering and supervising state plans for the construction of mental retardation facilities under Sec. 134(a)(1) and community health centers under Sec. 204 (a)(1) of Public Law 88-164 is legal.
Date: February 3, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Washita (open access)

Fort Washita

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Feb. 1966. "Fort Washita" by Bertha M. Antrim, pages 126-8. History of the fort, established in 1824, and abandoned July 1, 1870, is told in this article. Personal reminiscences of H. H. Harrill are included. Mr. Harrill last visited the fort in 1905. He also mentions crossing "Twelve Mile Prairie" to get there, picking up cannon balls and shrapnel & arrowheads, and a Mr. Marshall who owned a lot of land near the fort.
Date: 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History