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Goodnight-Loving Trail
From Mentone, take SH 302 W .5 mile to rest area
Blazed from the Fort Griffin-Dodge City Trail, through New Mexico to Colorado about 1860 by Oliver Loving 1812-1867, first cattle trail driver from ...
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Loving County
Loving County Courthouse square, near main entrance, facing SH 302
Formed from Tom Green County, created February 26, 1887. Organized July 8, 1893, named in honor of Oliver Loving, 1812-1867, farmer, rancher and ...
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Mentone
Loving County Courthouse square, corner of Pecos and Bell (SH 302)
Smallest County Seat in Texas Mentone Only town in Loving County -- last organized, most sparsely populated (both in total and per square mile) county ...
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Mentone Community Church
3 blocks N. of Courthouse, corner of Wheat St. and Pecos St.
Built 1910 in Porterville, a town abandoned after Pecos River flood of 1930. Moved here for school and social center. Also used by various church ...
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Oliver Loving, C.S.A.
Courthouse square, corner of Bell St. and Dallas St., Mentone
Only Texan instrumental in mapping 3 major cattle trails: Shawnee, Western and Goodnight-Loving trails. Born in Kentucky. Came to Texas 1845, to ...
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Route of Old Butterfield Stagecoach Road
from Mentone, take SH 302 W .05 mi. to rest area
Over these tracks passed the Butterfield Stage, 1858-1861, providing for first time in history a combined passenger and mail service from Atlantic ...
