Baylor County

Before settlement this was the range of the Wanderers, a nomadic Comanche (Numunuu) band that lived on the buffalo. In 1848 the Indian agent Robert S. Neighbors counted 250 Comanche, fifty Tonkawa and ten Wichita lodges on Lewis Creek, where Seymour now stands, and when surveyors arrived in 1853 the area was still a major buffalo range. The county was attached to Jack County for courts and government until it organized. Its population grew from 708 in 1880 to 2,595 in 1890 and 8,411 in 1910, when cotton, planted on just seventy-seven acres in 1880, covered more than 38,000.

What the plaque says

Created February 1, 1858; Organized April 23, 1879; named in honor of Dr. Henry W. Baylor 1818-1854; Indian fighter and Ranger captain; served in the Mexican War. Seymour, the County Seat.

Where it stands

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