Historical Marker
Hall County
Hall County · Texas
Erected 1936
Warren D. C. Hall's fighting career began long before Texas independence. As a captain in the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition he fought at Rosillo in 1813, then resigned in protest at the killing of royalist prisoners. He defended New Orleans as the War of 1812 ended, and in 1836 he acted as the republic's secretary of war while Thomas J. Rusk was with the army. Tax rolls of 1840 show him holding more than 17,000 acres and ninety enslaved people; debts forced the sale of his China Grove plantation to Albert Sidney Johnston in 1843.
What the plaque says
Hall County Formed from Young and Bexar territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized June 23, 1890. Named in honor of Warren D. C. Hall 1788-1867, member of the San Felipe Convention in 1832. Second in command of the Texans at Anahuac, 1832. Memphis, the County Seat.
Where it stands
34.72513, -100.53726 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Saints' Roost Museum — 24 miClarendon's county museum in the hospital Cornelia Adair built for JA cowboys in 1910, named for the nickname cowhands gave a Methodist town with no saloons.
- Donley County Courthouse — 25 miBulger and Rapp's red brick and white stone courthouse of 1891, the oldest in use in the Panhandle, given back its third floor and towers in a 2003 restoration.
- Childress County Heritage Museum — 28 miA railroad division town's museum in its 1935 Spanish Colonial post office, in the town that won its county seat by renaming a rival and once employed Walter P. Chrysler.
- Bob Wills Museum — 31 miThe old Turkey school, now holding Bob Wills's boots, hats, his father's fiddle and his barbershop tools, in the cotton town that fills each April for Bob Wills Day.