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Early Site of Bell Factory

Jefferson, Marion County

Marker Text

From a log blacksmith shop in 1854 grew a bell foundry owned by G. A. Kelly which manufactured cowbells widely used by pioneer ox-team freighters. Later the Kelly plow, one of the first modern plows made in Texas, was manufactured here.

Marker Details

Address
Location Description SH 49 and FM 729, 4 mi. from Jefferson
Marker # 8029
Dedicated 1936
Size, Type 1936 Centennial Marker
Code manufacturing
Latitude, Longitude 32.778085, -94.406267

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