Georgia, Oglethorpe County, Crawford
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In God We Trust
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Marine Corps Seal, Navy Seal, Coast Guard Seal, Air Force Seal, Army Seal
In Honor of the Veterans of Oglethorpe County
(Military) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In God We TrustMarine Corps Seal, Navy Seal, Coast Guard Seal, Air Force Seal, Army Seal
In Honor of the Veterans of Oglethorpe County
(Military) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Kandiyohi Town Site Corporation was organized in 1856, with John Swainson as president. By October of that year, the town site had been surveyed. David Charlton's plat indicates a large central area reserved for the State Capitol with a much smaller area marked "Courthouse Square." The first State Legislature authorized Governor Henry H. Sibley to appoint a commission to assist him in selecting the lands to be granted for the site of the State Capitol. Chosen were J.D. Skinner, W.C. Johnson and Robert Boyle, who left St. Paul on September 1, 1858, and returning only 17 days later. They selected
6,399 acres in Kandiyohi County as the site of the State's Capitol. Their report was approved by Sibley, but not affirmed by the legislature. The next governor, Alexander Ramsey, then appointed Major Abraham Vorker to recommend sites for the Capitol. He also chose the lands in Kandiyohi County. In 1861 the Legislature's House of Representatives approved the report, but the Senate did not. The Civil War and U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 delayed further action until 1869 when the old reports of the Capitol Sites Committees were approved by both the House and the Senate. Governor William R. Marshall vetoed the bill. Two years later, when the matter was again raised in the Legislature, a motion of indefinite postponement was adopted. This led to a flurry of legal activity. Kandiyohi County citizens, led by John S. Fleckten, tried every legal means to force the removal of the Sate Capitol to this county. All such action was ended by the Legislature in 1901, which passed a law providing for the sale of the capitol lands in Kandiyohi County on August 15, 1901.
This Celtic cross, erected in 1967 by descendants of the Irish settlers, is a half scale replica of a cross which stands on Partridge Island in Saint John Harbour.
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Settlement of this area began in the 1850s with the establishment of Camp Colorado, a United States Cavalry outpost. At the outbreak of the Civil War the camp was occupied by Texas state troops and Texas Ranger units. The existence of the camp spurred permanent settlement in the area, and many families moved here from the southern United States after the Civil War. The settlers established farms and ranches, and the Atoka community included a general store operated by D.A. Parker and S.N. Edenborough, a combination church/school building, and a cotton gin built by D.A. Parker.
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Named for Company E, Texas Rangers, which was stationed ½ mile east of peak in 1874. Atop peak, Rangers (under Capt. W.J. “Jeff” Maltby) kept a lookout for Indians. Outfit was part of the Frontier Battalion, organized to protect Texas settlers on frontier stretching from Red River to the Nueces. Camp was abandoned in 1876.
One-half mile east of here, some twenty-five to thirty Texas Rangers of Company E were stationed in 1874, under the command of Capt. W.J. “Jeff” Maltby. They kept sentries posted on nearby “Ranger Peak” to guard against Indians.
In 1884, when most of Runnels County was range for livestock, R.F. Counts (1838-1892) planted an experimental cotton field near this site. His success encouraged other area farmers, who raised 88 bales in 1888. First cotton gin in the nearby town of Content was a converted corn and flour mill. C.W. Miller and C.E. Woodrow built a new gin (1 mi. ne) about 1897. The County had about 40 gins to process its peak harvest of 78,172 bales in 1932. Cotton boosted property values in this area and remains a principal crop.
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