Lipscomb County

Abner Smith Lipscomb was born in the Abbeville District of South Carolina in 1789 and read law in the office of John C. Calhoun. He practiced in Alabama, became a circuit judge there in 1819 and was chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1823 to 1835 before moving to Texas in 1839. Governor James Pinckney Henderson appointed him to the Texas Supreme Court in 1846, and voters returned him to the bench in 1851 and 1856. He died in Austin on December 8, 1856, twenty years before the county was named for him.

What the plaque says

Formed from Young and Bexar territories: Created, August 21, 1876 Organized June 6, 1887 Named in honor of Abner S. Lipscomb, 1789-1856. Secretary of State in President Lamar's cabinet member of the Constitutional Convention, 1845; associate justice of the First Supreme Court of Texas. Lipscomb, the county seat

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Marvin — 19 mi
  A small 1930s conservation lake on Boggy Creek east of Canadian, named for the Panhandle congressman whose name is on the 1937 law that turned the plains' ruined farms back to grass.
• Gene Howe Wildlife Management Area — 22 mi
  Five thousand acres of sand sage and cottonwood bottomland along the Canadian River east of Canadian, bought by the state in 1950 for wildlife research and open to walkers with a permit.
• Canadian River Wagon Bridge — 25 mi
  The longest pin-connected bridge in Texas, 3,255 feet of Parker trusses across the Canadian River at Canadian, built for wagons in 1916 and reopened as a footpath in 2000.
• River Valley Pioneer Museum — 26 mi
  The Hemphill County museum in Canadian, a Santa Fe division town of 1887 on the river breaks that held one of the first commercial rodeos in Texas and voted itself dry in 1903.

More markers nearby

• Will Rogers — 1.7 mi
• Higgins — 1.7 mi
• Lipscomb Union Church — 16 mi
• Lipscomb School — 16 mi