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17 STATE Markers:
Big
Spring State Park on route of Old Comanche War Trail (FM 700 at State
Park)
Route of Marcy's Trail (Big Spring Comanche Trail Park)
Moss Spring (Private property)
W. T. (Uncle) Bud Roberts, 1849-1940 (Moss Creek Lake Road)
The Seventh Earl of Aylesford - Cosmopolitan Hotel (NW Corner of Third and
Runnels)
First Permanent Building in Big Spring (Inside business at 119 Main
Street)
The J & W Fisher Company (South end of Big Spring Furniture Co, 110 Main)
First Christian Church (911 Goliad)
Potton House (200 Gregg Street)
W. P. Soash, Colonizer (County Road #54, off FM 1785, 6 mi. NW of
Vealmoore)
First Commercial Oil Well in Howard County (13 miles S of Forsan)
Howard County - Formed from Young and Bexar Territories (3.8 miles south
of Big Spring on Hwy 87)
Moore School (3.7 miles N on Hwy 87 then 1 mile W)
Settles Hotel (3rd and Runnels)
Masonic Cemetery - Mt. Olive (Snyder Hwy 350)
First National Bank (Fourth and Main)
St. Thomas Catholic Church (605 N. Main)
27 COUNTY Markers:
1884
Howard County Courthouse
1884 An Historical Big Springs Meat Market
1899 Opera House Company
1899 Telephone Company
1900 Big Spring Hardware Company
1909 First Self-propelled Fire Engine in Texas
1911 Centennial of St. Thomas Catholic Church
1919 Chamber of Commerce
1928 Ritz Theater
1932 Municipal Auditorium
1942 The Record Shop
1946 Carters Furniture
1891 Coahoma Baptist Church
1899 First Presbyterian Church of Coahoma
1906 The G. L. (Bud) Brown Home
1891 First Presbyterian Church of Big Spring
1971 The Heritage Museum
1929 The Petroleum Building
1922 The Howard County Courthouse Annex
1883 First Methodist Episcopal Church South
1943 Howard County Library
1905 Gomez Hall
1890 The First National Bank of Big Spring
1884 Old Masonic Lodge
1990 The Railroad Plaza
1920 The Sparenberg Building
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