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11962 Cottage Hotel W. Commercial St. (US 60), NW side between N. Birge and N. Main streets The prominent Lard family helped Lizzie Lard build the Cottage Hotel to support her two daughters after she was widowed 1893; it was completed in ... 965 County Named for Prominent Confederate Colonel O. M. Roberts Roberts County Courthouse grounds, NW side facing E. Commercial St. (US 60) 1815-1898. President Secession Convention 1861, resulting in comment by Sam Houston, "I don't know what they will do, but Roberts is honest." Raised ...

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2039 Fossil Beds from Miami, 4.2 mi. NE on US 60, SE corner US 60 and FM 3367 (Three miles southeast) Cited as one of most prolific fossil fields of lower Pliocene age at time of discovery, these beds are about 13,000,000 years ...

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16703 Miami Cemetery 1020 US 60 The earliest cemetery in the town of Miami was established shortly after 1887 when the Southern Kansas branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ... 14162 Miami Mammoth Kill Site NW corner FM 283 and FM 2699, 7.8 mi. NW of Miami In 1933, a local farmer plowing a wheat field began uncovering large, chalky bones. Knowing them to be too large to be cow or buffalo bones, several ... 3358 Miami Railroad Depot Roberts County Museum. SW corner E. Commercial St. (US 60) and S. Mobeetie St. When the Southern Kansas Railway Company of Texas built a line through Roberts County in 1887, Miami developed at the end of the track as a campsite ...

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3948 Parnell FM 283, 1.8 mi. E of SH 70, E side of the road (One mile east) Roberts County was created on Aug. 21, 1876, by the Texas Legislature, but remained unorganized, as in that year it had only one ...

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4292 Roberts County from Miami, 3.5 mi. NE on US 60 to roadside park, SE side of the road, 0.7 mi. SW of FM 3367 Formed from Young and Bexar territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized January 10, 1889. Named in honor of John S. Roberts, a signer of the ... 12593 Roberts County Courthouse Roberts County Courthouse grounds, NW side facing E. Commercial St. (US 60) Prominently sited atop a grassy slope overlooking the town of Miami, the Roberts County Courthouse was built in 1913, during a time of regional economic ...

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5729 Wayside Community Wayside community, SW corner SH 70 and FM 282 Settlers came to this locality in 1876. The county was organized in 1889. Pioneer school district no. 5 originated by court order in 1890 to serve ...