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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2E_worlds-first-championship-jackrabbit-roping_Odessa-TX.html
Contest began as "hare-brained" publicity stunt during 1932 annual Odessa Rodeo. Held at 3rd and Grant Street site despite objections from out-of-town do-gooders. Local sheriff opposed event but mayor and judge ruled no violation of Texa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2D_ector-county-public-schools_Odessa-TX.html
Earliest public schools in county met in land office, courthouse and church 1890-99. First school building in Odessa at 6th & Texas used 1899-1909. Baker and Judkins districts also had early school buildings. In 1909 new school built at 10th & Lee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M01_ector-county-courthouse_Odessa-TX.html
Seat of justice for Ector, created out of Tom Green County in 1887 and organized in 1891.
The 1891 courthouse was frame, the remodelled town sanitarium, moved to the present square. Its first floor had rooms for the sheriff, court clerks and Ode…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZX_odessa_Odessa-TX.html
After the Texas and Pacific Railway extended its line to the South Plains of Texas in 1881, the Odessa Land and Townsite Company of Zanesville, Ohio, began promotional efforts to attract settlers to its property along the rail line. Regular excurs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZF_ector-county-land-rush_Odessa-TX.html
Here in 1904 a fight involved almost every man in Ector County, over filing a claim for 4 sections of public land. Elias Dawson and Charlie Lewis each brought friends to help him file. Before courthouse doors opened, several men had clothes or boo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZA_ector-county-newspapers_Odessa-TX.html
In 1895, William C. "Uncle Billy" griffin came to Odessa from Midland and began publishing Ector County's first Newspaper, the Odessa "Weekly News'. The "Weekly News" lasted only a year, and was followed by six other short-lived weekly publication…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZ7_the-waddell-pecan-tree_Odessa-TX.html
A few years after Odessa was founded in 1881, a squirrel stole a pecan from a neighbor's porch, and buried it in the yard of W. T. Malone, planting this tree. A rarity in the downtown area, it became a well-known landmark.
When R. T. ("Cotton") …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LY9_odessa-land-townsite-company_Odessa-TX.html
The Texas & Pacific Railroad transferred 640 acres of its land grants here in 1886 to John Hoge of Zanesville, Ohio. He formed the Odessa Land & Townsite Company to promote sale of town lots. Prime house lots sold for $150 and business lots for $2…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LY3_site-of-the-odessa-sanitarium_Odessa-TX.html
Established in 1886 by Odessa Townsite Company, the Odessa Medical and Surgical Sanitarium was directed by Dr. R.E. Haughton, a former railroad physician from Indiana. It was located in a two-story wooden structure of twenty rooms.
By March 1890…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LY1_the-white-pool-house_Odessa-TX.html
Charles White (1824-1905) moved his family here from Indiana seeking new business opportunities and a drier climate for his wife's health. With the aid of his sons Wilfred Walton White and Herbert Haughton White, he constructed this two-story bric…