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439 Blue Mountain N side SH 302, 14.9 mi. E of Kermit, 3.4 mi. W of S Wheeler Road (CR 307), 3.5 mi. W of Ector County line. (4.5 mi N) Winkler County's highest point (3400 ft.), "Blue Mountain" is actually not a mountain, but is instead the southern escarpment of the ...

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958 Colonel C. M. Winkler Courthouse Square, corner of Poplar & Winkler, Kermit Native North Carolina. Start of Civil War, organized and took company 150 men to join Confederate army in Virginia. Unit made part 4th Texas Infantry ...

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2927 Kermit E. City Limit, W. side of Hwy. 302, Kermit County Seat of Winkler County. Organized in 1910. Incorporated in 1938. Name for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, who had visited ... 2928 Kermit's Oldest Home Pioneer Park, Tommy Thompson Rd., Kermit (Mosley House) Built by county clerk, 1910. (year Winkler County was organized). Owned by Mosleys Bairds. (1964)

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3465 Moorhead Cable Tool Rig Pioneer Park, Tommy Thompson Rd., Kermit Last wooden oil derrick in U.S. to retire from daily use. Drilled Moorhead No. 1 well on Chapman-McAlvane lease, Loving County. Has bull wheels and ...

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3723 Old Duval Townsite SH 302, north side about 0.2 mi. W of SH 115 First post office in Winkler (then part of Tom Green) County opened near here (1908) on John Howe ranch. Mail came in twice weekly to serve 300 persons. ... 3835 Old Wink Cemetery Old Wink Cemetery, SE corner FM 1232 and CR 201 "Ghost" burial plot with 26 unmarked graves of unidentified, unfortunates, or men traveling under aliases during 1926-29 oil boom violence. All ...

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15780 Roy Orbison Roy Orbinson Drive, E side between NE Second Street and NE First Street (FM 1232) (April 23, 1936 - December 6, 1988) Roy Kelton Orbison was one of America's most famed rock and roll musicians. Born in Vernon (Wilbarger Co.), ...

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5274 Texas Territorial Compromise of 1850 From Kermit, take SH 18 North then at State Line. Four miles east of this site is an official corner post marking agreement of Texas to give up some of the land won in her 1836 war for independence. ... 1005 The Community Church 302 South Poplar St., Kermit 50 years of camp meetings, circuit riders, singings and Sunday Schools at ranches or schoolhouses filled settlers' religious needs. In 1928, when ... 4561 The Sand Hills From Kermit, take SH 115 NE about 8 mile Junction N of FM 874. Mapped by U. S. Government, 1849, for gold seekers and settlers. Known earlier to Indians and many Spanish explorers. A 100-mile belt of sand in ...

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5853 Willow Springs From Kermit, take Hwy. 18 about 12 mile S. Located 6.6 miles east of this site in the Sand Hills, Willow Springs was known to Comanche Indians and to West Texas pioneers as an important source ... 5865 Wink Jct. of N 3rd & FM 115, Wink On land ruled up to 1874 by Comanche Indians, later part of famed "W" cattle ranch. Town "born" in 1926 when Roy Westbrook's Permian Basin oil discovery ... 5866 Winkler County Winkler County Park, S. East Ave., E side between Tommy Thompson and Cecil Ave. along walking path Formed from Tom Green County. Created February 26, 1887. Organized April 5, 1910. Named in honor of C. M. Winkler, 1821-1882, statesman, soldier ... 5867 Winkler County Courthouse 110 E. Winkler St., Kermit Built in 1929-30 in response to the need for a larger courthouse after the discovery of oil in the county in 1926, this replaced a 1910 structure ... 5868 Winkler County Discovery Well 1.5 mile NE of SH 18 on SH 115 in Park opposite City Hall, Wink First of 612 Wells in Hendrick Field, a very prolific, 10,000 acre west Texas oil pool. This area, called "Wildcatters' graveyard", lay on the 30,000 ...