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Dawson County
Picnic area at SE Corner US 87 and US 180. Marker reported damaged (missing bronze seal) Oct. 2020.
Created February 1, 1858. Recreated August 21, 1876 from Bexar Territory. Organized February 13, 1905. Named in honor of Nicholas Mosby Dawson 1808-1842 ...
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Hardy Morgan House
Off SH 137 on private property
RTHL medallion only
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Lamesa Farm Workers Community
Los Ybanez community, E of building at 1919 CR M, about 200 feet NE of intersection of CR M and CR 20
By the 1920s, Dawson County’s rapidly expanding cotton economy was outgrowing its labor supply. Like other areas of the country, Lamesa began to ...
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M.C. Lindsey House
W side Bryan Ave. opposite S. 5th St.
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Pioneer Cemetery
SW corner NE 1st St. and Elgin Ave. Marker is near center of cemetery at the end of a paved path facing Elgin Ave.
First burial ground in Dawson County, given by Frank Conner. First grave, Nov. 10, 1904, for Mrs. G. W. Pate, who had suggested cemetery. Plot closed ...
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Site of Chicago
N. 22nd St., N side between N. Houston and N. Main avenues
(1/4 mi. N) W.C. Bishop of Chicago, Ill., and wealthy lumberman George N. Fletcher established the OTO (later Bar TO) ranch about 1887 on Fletcher's ...
