Goshen | |
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| Coordinates: 32°57′39″N97°44′48″W / 32.96083°N 97.74667°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Parker |
| Elevation | 1,079 ft (329 m) |
Goshen is an Unincorporated community in Parker County, Texas, United States which developed around a Methodist church. [1]
Parker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 148,222. The county seat is Weatherford. The county was created in 1855 and organized the following year. It is named for Isaac Parker, a state legislator who introduced the bill that established the county in 1855.
Limestone County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,146. Its county seat is Groesbeck. The county was created in 1846.
Weatherford is a city and the county seat of Parker County, Texas, United States. In 2020, its population was 30,854. Weatherford is named after Thomas J. Weatherford, a State senator and advocate for Texas’ secession to the Confederate States.
Cynthia Ann Parker, Naduah, Narua, or Preloch, was a woman who was captured by a Comanche band during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, where several of her relatives were killed. She was taken with her younger brother, John Richard Parker, and cousin, James Pratt Plummer. Parker was later adopted into the tribe and had three children with a chief. Twenty-four years later she was relocated and taken captive by Texas Rangers, at approximately age 33, and unwillingly forced to separate from her sons and conform to European-American society. Her Comanche name means "was found" or "someone found" in English.
Oliver Loving was an American rancher and cattle driver. Together with Charles Goodnight, he developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail. He was mortally wounded by Native Americans while on a cattle drive.
The term Cross Timbers, also known as Ecoregion 29, Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains, is used to describe a strip of land in the United States that runs from southeastern Kansas across Central Oklahoma to Central Texas. Made up of a mix of prairie, savanna, and woodland, it forms part of the boundary between the more heavily forested eastern country and the almost treeless Great Plains, and also marks the western habitat limit of many mammals and insects.
Pleasant Tackitt was a 19th-century politician, pioneer Methodist minister, stockman, teacher, farmer, Indian fighter, and Confederate officer. Tackitt was a key figure in the history of Arkansas and North Texas, including a state representative in the Arkansas General Assembly. Because of his battles with Indians in Texas, Tackitt became known as "the Fighting Parson".
Peaster is an unincorporated community in Parker County, Texas, United States, nine miles (14 km) northwest of Weatherford.
Garner is an unincorporated community on Farm to Market Road 113 northwest of Weatherford in Parker County, Texas, United States. It has a population of around 100.
Cresson is a city located at the corners of Hood, Johnson, and Parker counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 377 and State Highway 171, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Fort Worth. Incorporated in 2001, Cresson had a population of 741 at the 2010 census. By 2020, it had a population of 1,349.
Whitt is an unincorporated community in northwestern Parker County, Texas, United States. Whitt is located at the intersection of Farm Roads 2891 and 52, twenty miles northwest of Weatherford, Texas.
Brock is an incorporated town in Parker County, Texas, United States. James Monroe Maddux and Sarah Naomi were married in Georgia and had 12 children. The family moved to Arkansas and then to Olive Branch, Texas in 1876. The Maddux family was very religious and saw at once the need for a church and a school in the Brock community. On February 7, 1880, land for the churches, cemetery, and school in Brock were given to the community by James M. and Sarah N. Maddux.
Frederick Garland "Fritz" Lanham was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas.
Dennis is an incorporated town in Parker County, Texas, USA. Its elevation is 728 feet (222 m). On May 6, 2017, voters approved incorporation of Dennis. It has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76439.
Goshen, sometimes called Hutcheson, is an Unincorporated community in Walker County, Texas, United States.
Goshen is an unincorporated area and abandoned settlement in Henderson County, Texas, United States. Its location was described as "on Trim Creek eight miles northeast of Eustace in northwestern Henderson County." There is a cemetery there with about 450 graves.
Mary Couts Burnett was a wealthy philanthropist who donated the bulk of her estate to Texas Christian University. The endowment was used to establish the Mary Couts Burnett Library at the university.
Bose Ikard was an African-American cowboy who participated in the pioneering cattle drives on what became known as the Goodnight–Loving Trail, after the American Civil War and through 1869. Aspects of his life inspired the fictional character Joshua Deets, the African-American cowboy in Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove.
Edward H. Tarrant was an American politician who served the Republic of Texas and the State of Texas by fighting multiple indigenous nations for two decades. He, along with John Nealy Bryan, John B. Denton, John H. Reagan, and surveyor Warren Angus Ferris, participated in the massacre of Caddo Indians along the Trinity (Arkikosa) River. Once all native people were removed from the area Bryan was able to claim the land, divide it, and sell it, all thanks to the efforts of Gen. Tarrant. This area along the Arkikosa is now known as Dallas, TX. He also served in the Texas House of Representatives during both periods.
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