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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z24_site-of-the-first-lamb-county-courthouse_Olton-TX.html
Created in 1876, Lamb County was unorganized until it could muster 21 qualified voters, 1908. Citizens donated labor for first 9-room frame courthouse, which served until it burned in 1922. First county officials were: Judge H. R. Miller; Comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YZF_first-baptist-church-of-olton_Olton-TX.html
In 1903, the Rev. J.W. Winn, a missionary with the Staked Plains Missionary Baptist Association, led a meeting at a farmhouse northeast of what became Olton. That day, the first Missionary Baptist Church in Lamb County was organized. The members c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YZE_oltons-union-church-bell_Olton-TX.html
When the Soash Land Company founded Olton in 1908, lots were provided for a school, church and bank. Residents of the new town erected a Union church for all denominations about 1909. Soon afterward, they purchased this 950-pound steel bell. Its t…
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