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Palo Pinto County / Historic map, Library of Congress

Palo Pinto County / Historic map, Library of Congress

Blueprint Shows land ownership. "Traced by Grady W. Davis." LC Land ownership maps, 1093 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route 16, Graford, Palo Pinto County, TX

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route...

Significance: The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from... More

The "Lighthouse," the signature formation in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Armstrong County in the Texas panhandle

The "Lighthouse," the signature formation in Palo Duro Canyon State Pa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A multiuse, six-mile round-trip loop trail is dedicated to the formation. The middle portion of the trail can be hot with little shad... More

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route 16, Graford, Palo Pinto County, TX

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route...

Significance: The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from... More

A mountain biker tests a rugged path amid the rock formations in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in the Texas panhandle

A mountain biker tests a rugged path amid the rock formations in Palo ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route 16, Graford, Palo Pinto County, TX

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route...

Significance: The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from... More

Path and rock formations in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in the Texas panhandle

Path and rock formations in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in the Texas p...

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route 16, Graford, Palo Pinto County, TX

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route...

Significance: The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from... More

[Fig. 1 Greenland seal-hunting; fig. 2 Brazilian Indians bird-shooting; fig. 3 attack by Guaycouros horseman (Brazil); fig. 4 cattle-hunting on the Pampas (Brazil); fig. 5 Negro dances at Sao Palo [Brazil]; fig. 6 South Patagonian huts and graves]

[Fig. 1 Greenland seal-hunting; fig. 2 Brazilian Indians bird-shooting...

Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, (1851) v. 1, plate 35. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Patagonia; Dwellings; Seals; Brazil; Greenland; Ind. of S. ... More

A distinctive "hoodoo" rock formation near Capitol Peak in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Armstrong County in the Texas panhandle

A distinctive "hoodoo" rock formation near Capitol Peak in Palo Duro C...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A hoodoo (also called a tent rock and fairy chimney) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes skyward. It is formed when weaker s... More

Rural scene in Palo Pinto County, Texas, near Mineral Wells

Rural scene in Palo Pinto County, Texas, near Mineral Wells

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A distinctive "hoodoo" rock formation near Capitol Peak in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Armstrong County in the Texas panhandle

A distinctive "hoodoo" rock formation near Capitol Peak in Palo Duro C...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A hoodoo (also called a tent rock and fairy chimney) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes skyward. It is formed when weaker s... More

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route 16, Graford, Palo Pinto County, TX

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route...

Significance: The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from... More

Rural scene in Palo Pinto County, Texas, near Mineral Wells

Rural scene in Palo Pinto County, Texas, near Mineral Wells

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A highlight of the "Texas" outdoor musical drama, staged in the Pioneer Amphitheater carved from the rocks of Palo Duro Canyon southeast of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle, are majestic rides along the canyon rim by Paul Lundergeen, aboard his white stallion, Ghost. Following his initial gallop, more than 60 performers take the stage to tell the story of the Lone Star State in song and dance

A highlight of the "Texas" outdoor musical drama, staged in the Pionee...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route 16, Graford, Palo Pinto County, TX

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route...

Significance: The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from... More

Jowell Ranch House, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Possum Kingdom Lake, Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County, TX), Lubbock, Lubbock County, TX

Jowell Ranch House, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Poss...

Significance: When George R. Jowell returned to Palo Pinto County from a Kansas Trail drive in the mid-1870's and found his log cabin burned by Indians, he built this stone house. Limestone for the structure ev... More

A lizard pauses to evaluate an intruder into its turf on the floor of Palo Duro Canyon in Armstrong County in the Texas panhandle

A lizard pauses to evaluate an intruder into its turf on the floor of ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Map of Palo Pinto County, Texas. - Public domain old map

Map of Palo Pinto County, Texas. - Public domain old map

Shows land ownership. "Copyright 1879. W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the Genl. Land Office of the State of Texas." "Lithographed by August Gast & Co.s New Process St. Louis." Both copies mounted on paper. LC Land... More

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route 16, Graford, Palo Pinto County, TX

Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Brazos River at State Route...

Significance: The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from... More

Palo Pinto County, Texas / - Public domain old map

Palo Pinto County, Texas / - Public domain old map

In upper right margin: Our unsold lands of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company are colored yellow. Shows landownership. LC Land ownership maps, 1092 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ... More

Jowell Ranch House, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Possum Kingdom Lake, Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County, TX), Lubbock, Lubbock County, TX

Jowell Ranch House, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Poss...

Significance: When George R. Jowell returned to Palo Pinto County from a Kansas Trail drive in the mid-1870's and found his log cabin burned by Indians, he built this stone house. Limestone for the structure ev... More

Jowell Ranch House, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Possum Kingdom Lake, Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County, TX), Lubbock, Lubbock County, TX

Jowell Ranch House, National Ranching Heritage Center (moved from Poss...

Significance: When George R. Jowell returned to Palo Pinto County from a Kansas Trail drive in the mid-1870's and found his log cabin burned by Indians, he built this stone house. Limestone for the structure ev... More