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Formed form Young and Bexar territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized July 5, 1886. Named in honor of John Hemphill, 1809-1862. First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. Adjutant General of the Somervell Expedition. Member of the first State Constitutional Convention. Member of the United States Congress. Canadian, the county seat.
Hemphill County is a historical marker in Canadian, Hemphill County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 31 historical markers documented in Hemphill County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 33 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 35.9234, -100.3768 near Canadian. The nearest cataloged historic site is Canadian River Trails (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Robert R. Young, Tom T. McGee, and Edith Ford Memorial Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5211002433. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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