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533 Brown House Corner of Labapie and 7th Street, Sterling City N/A - Medallion only

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661 Camp Elizabeth From Sterling City, take Highway 87 northwest about 10 miles. Thought to have been established 1853. Used as an outpost hospital of Fort Concho 1874 - 1886. 1019 Concho, San Saba & Llano Valley Railroad Station Corner of Stadium Drive and north end of Washington Street. Medallion reported missing. Attracted by the area's livestock production, nearby shipping points, and the financial support of the town, the Concho, San Saba and Llano Valley ...

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1274 Dr. P. D. Coulson Montvale Cemetery. From Sterling City take SH 87 about 4 miles southeast. Born near Morganton, Tenn. He enlisted, May 22, 1861, as private in 3rd Tenn. Inf., Confederate Army. Promoted to surgeon with rank of major, 1862, ...

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2040 Foster Cemetery From Sterling City, take SH 163 south about 5.2 miles to Foster Cemetery The Foster Cemetery originally was part of the ranch land owned by Robert West and Fannie B. Foster, early settlers and prominent civic leaders in ...

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3447 Montvale from Sterling City, take US 87 about 4 miles southeast to Montvale Cemetery The community of Montvale was established in 1884 when the pioneer settlement of St. Elmo was relocated here. Then a part of Tom Green County, Montvale ...

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4154 R. P. Brown Home 705 5th Avenue, Sterling City N/A - Medallion only 4303 Robert West Foster From Sterling, City, take SH 163 south about 5.2 miles to Foster Cemetery A pioneer settler of the Sterling County area, Kentucky-born Robert West Foster came here in 1881 with his brother W. L. Foster. A rancher, R. W. ...

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5525 Site of Town of Cummins From Sterling City, take SH 87 about 1.9 miles west. The pioneer settlement of Cummins developed at this site about 1890 around the saddle and harness shop of the earliest permanent settler, Mississippi ... 5100 State Hotel - First State Bank Northwest corner of 4th (SH 158) and Elm streets Directors of the First State Bank of Sterling City, the town's earliest financial institution, had this two-story brick commercial building constructed ... 5113 Sterling County Sterling County Courthouse grounds This prairie region split by the north Concho River is old Comanche, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Lipan, and Wichita hunting ground. Possibly it was crossed ... 5114 Sterling County Jail Sterling County Courthouse grounds This two-story jail building was constructed in 1912, twenty-one years after the organization of Sterling County. Built by the Southern Structural ...

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5835 William Lenard Foster From Sterling City, take SH 163 south about 5.2 miles to Foster Cemetery Navarro County native William Lenard Foster migrated to this area in 1881 with his brother Robert West Foster. One of the region's pioneer settlers, ...