Historical Marker
Gibbs House
Historical marker location:
Huntington vicinity, Texas
( 10 miles south of Huntington on FM 844)
Marker installed: 1993
W. M. Gibbs came to the town of Manning in 1904 as a sawmill manager for the Carter-Kelly Lumber Company. Gibbs (1876 - 1938) and his wife, Leannah, were the first occupants of this c. 1904 house, and here they reared their four children. Enlarged in 1927, the house is an American foursquare design with Craftsman influences. It remained in the Gibbs family until 1942 and is one of the few remaining physical reminders of the Manning community.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1993.