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760 Catherine McLauren located in southwest corner of Leakey Floral Cemetery; Leakey A victim of the last Indian raid in Frio Canyon, April 19, 1881. Mother of three small children, "Kate" McLauren was home with them and a neighbor ... 808 Charles A. Lindbergh in Texas Lindbergh Park on SH 55; Camp Wood Texas was important in the career of aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-75). When he bought his first World War I surplus Jenny in Georgia, ... 16212 Clark Family Cemetery from Uvalde, travel N. on Hwy 83, left on FM 1051, rt. on Canyon Ranch Road, then 1.8 mi. to cemetery on the rt. Newlyweds Joseph Hutchinson Clark (1857-1901) and Annie Susie Wilson (1869-1953) bought this land from Annie's father on April 2, 1887. On Christmas ... 12165 Cypress Creek Cemetery From Leakey, 7.7 mi. NE on US 83, 0.2 mi. E on N. Prong Cypress Creek Rd. (E of East Frio River). Marker is on N side of the road, cemetery is another 150 feet north. Map dot approximate. Established in the 1870s, Cypress Creek Cemetery served a scattered community of pioneers along Cypress Creek in what was then Bandera County before ...

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2792 John Leakey Real County Courthouse grounds, W side facing US 83 Tennessee native John Leakey (1824-1900) came to Texas in 1847, settling for a time in Henderson County where he was a brickmason and rancher. He ...

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3057 Leakey Cemetery Leakey Cemetery, RR 337 (6th St.), S side, 300 feet E of Evergreen St. near cemetery entrance Originally known as the Floral Cemetery and serving an earlier community by that name, this cemetery dates to at least 1881. Land for the graveyard ... 18678 Leakey Church of Christ Southwest corner of the block 32 located at 3rd Street and US 83, in the city of Leakey, Texas 3058 Leakey Methodist Church Leakey United Methodist Church, NW corner Market and 1st streets By establishing a home and sawmill nearby in 1856 John and Nancy Leakey became the first to settle in the Frio River Canyon area. This congregation ... 13020 Leakey School 101 E Main Settlers arrived in the Leakey area, then part of Bandera County, in the mid-1850s. Many educated their children in their own homes, and early schoolhouses ... 3112 Lombardy Irrigation Ditch FM 1120, S side 100 feet W of RR 2748 Dug in 1868, in pick-and-shovel operation, by Lombardy Irrigation Company, whose officers were N. M. C. Patterson, W. F. Smith, and T. Watkins. Besides ...

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3563 Near Route of Famous Cattle Trail from Leakey go south on US Highway 83 approximately 5.2 miles to R.O.W.. Marker reported damaged Nov. 2020. One of many "feeder trails" in Texas that converged with the legendary Chisholm Trail above the Red River, this route directed thousands of longhorns ...

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4125 Private Frank Marshall, C.S.A. 600 block SH 55 (Nueces St.), east side north of 7th St. Buried here, 3/10 mi. from Camp Wood. A 29-year-old Harrison Countian, symbolizes Texans who died for the Confederacy in the Arizona-New Mexico campaign. ...

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4211 Real County Real County Courthouse grounds, SW corner, at NE corner of US 83 and 4th St. Inscription plate replaced 1968. Located on the Edwards Plateau, Real County is in an area of rolling terrain broken by the canyons of the Frio River. Because of raids by Comanche, ... 17266 Real County Real County Courthouse grounds, S side facing 4th St. The location of Real County lies at the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau along the Balcones Escarpment, an area of rugged mountains and canyons ... 11692 Real County Courthouse Real County Courthouse, S side facing 4th St. Leakey was the county seat of Edwards County from 1883 to 1891 when a vote moved the seat to Rocksprings. Real County, named for businessman and ...

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4749 Site of Camp Wood from Camp Wood go north on SH 55 approximately .2 miles Established May 20, 1857, as a means of preventing Indian raids on the San Antonio - El Paso route and the Rio Grande Valley. Abandoned March 15, ... 4831 Site of McLaurin Massacre from Leakey take US Highway 83 north 1 mile; then northwest on RR 336 approximately 5.5 miles. Marker reported missing Dec. 2010. Site Of McLaurin Massacre (Last Indian Raid in Frio Canyon) On April 19, 1881, Catherine "Kate" Ringer McLaurin (sometimes McLauren) was with her ... 4547 Site of the Mission San Lorenzo de La Santa Cruz from Camp Wood go north on SH 55 approximately .2 miles Founded by Franciscan missionaries among the Lipan Apache Indians in 1762. Abandoned in 1769.

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5638 Vance Cemetery Vance community, at Vance Cemetery. From Barksdale, 7.2 mi. N on RR 335, W side of the road, across Nueces River and Bullhead Creek, 0.3 mi. S of RR 2631 One of the earliest settlers of this area was Henry Wells (1850-1923), who first came to the Nueces Canyon in 1866. He founded the town of Bullhead ...