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963 Colonel John S. Sutton Courthouse Grounds; corner of Water and Main Streets Sonora At outbreak Civil War, this veteran soldier, Ranger, Indian fighter joined 7th Regiment Texas Mounted Volunteers. Elected lt. colonel, led five companies ...

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2024 Fort Terrett Headquarters From Sonora, take I-10 East about 30 miles to Exit 429 go under I-10 to FM 3130, go East on 3130 about 1 mile to CR 307, go down CR 307 about 1 mile to Ranch Headquarters *Private property* N/A

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3765 Old Mercantile Building Corner of Water and Main Streets, Sonora Kentucky native Ed R. Jackson (1860-1911), a prominent local rancher and banker, had this two-story Italianate commercial building constructed in ... 3798 Old Rock Schoolhouse 300 block of College Street, Sonora This Italianate schoolhouse was built in 1904 to provide improved educational facilities for a growing population. Rockmason T. S. Hodges of Lockhart ...

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4799 Site of Fort Terrett From Sonora, take I-10 East about 30 miles to Exit 429 go under I-10 to FM 3130, go east on 3130 about 1 mile to CR 307, go down CR 307 about 1 mile to marker Site of Fort Terrett. Established February 5, 1852 by the United States Army as a protection to frontier settlers, named in honor of Lieutenant John ... 5973 Site of Sonora Town Well Courthouse Square; corner of Water and Main Streets, Sonora Pioneers seeking grazing land in arid Sutton County needed a reliable source of water. In 1887 Sonora's closest well, one of five in the county, ... 5156 Sutton County 4 miles east of Sonora on SH 467 Has traces of culture at least 20,000 years old, occupied by Apache Indians up to founding of Fort Terrett, 1852. Anglo-Texan settlement began 1879 ... 5157 Sutton County Courthouse Corner of Water and Main Streets, Sonora This building site of all land transactions incident to development of county. Water well, a few feet from building, was first water here, where ... 5158 Sutton County Jail Courthouse Square; Corner of Water and Main Streets, Sonora Soon after Sutton County was organized (1890), the commissioners authorized the Pauley Jail Building and Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis to erect ...

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5341 The Frisco Trailway Courthouse Square, corner of Water and Main Streets Sonora Important in development of Sutton County. 100-mile Market Lane, used 1900-1930. Built by E. F. Tillman (agent, Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway), ... 5357 The Ike Miers House 309 Oak Street, Sonora, in process of getting a replacement March 2020. Sonora's fifth structure; built as home of Isaac Miers (1835-1891), Civil War veteran who married, in Bell County (1867), Victoria Morton (1841-1913), ...

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5752 Wentworth on US 277, about 31/2 miles south of Sonora Situated in 1880's at water well of A. J. Winkler, who platted townsite, gave title bond, and named place for Fort Terrett area rancher P. H. Wentworth. ...