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Elmwood Memorial Park is a cemetery located in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, United States. It has in excess of 30,000 interments. It has in excess of 30,000 interments. The first burials at this cemetery took place in 1946.
Abilene Reporter-News downtown office. Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, United States. The newspaper started publishing as the weekly Abilene Reporter, helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert, on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was founded. It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city.
Carole Cook (1924–2023), actress; protégé of Lucille Ball; Abilene native Roy Crane (1901–1977), cartoonist ; creator, Wash Tubbs , Captain Easy , and Buz Sawyer ; Abilene native Sonny Cumbie (born 1981), quarterback for the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League ; Abilene native
Fort Griffin, now a Texas state historic site as Fort Griffin State Historic Site, was a US Cavalry fort established 31 July 1867 by four companies of the Sixth Cavalry, U.S. Army [2] under the command of Lt. Col. S. D. Sturgis, [3]: 64 in the western part of North Texas, specifically northwestern Shackelford County, to give settlers protection from early Comanche and Kiowa raids.
Abilene (/ ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n / AB-i-leen) is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States.Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census. [9] It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 176,579 as of 2020. [10]
Dyess AFB was established in 1942 as Abilene Army Air Base. It was renamed in honor of Texas native and Bataan Death March survivor Lieutenant Colonel William Dyess . As of 2023, the 7th Bomb Wing is commanded by Colonel Seth W. Spanier.
Abilene Christian College first received school accreditation in 1951, when it became an accredited member of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. [ 7 ] Amberton University , previously Amber University, was created as an extension campus of Abilene Christian University.
Couy Dale Griffin (born 1973) is an American former politician and right wing extremist, and convicted criminal who served from 2019 to 2022 as a county commissioner for District 2 of Otero County, New Mexico, which covers Tularosa, Three Rivers, La Luz, the western parts of Alamogordo, and the Mescalero Apache Reservation.