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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T65_silver-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
A pioneer ranching center, settled about 1880. Early land owners included S.M. Conner, W.G. Jameson and W.R. Walker. Dr. J.E. Reed for 50 years was only physician here. R.B. Allen was outstanding civic leader.
Post office, named for pea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T64_coke-county-jail-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
Successor to county's first one-room jail of rough lumber built about 1891, this building was erected 1907 by Southern Structural Steel Company, San Antonio. Officials who let the contract were P.D. Coulson, County Judge; C.M. Barger, S.W. Gaston,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T5F_hayrick-lodge-696-a-f-a-m-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
Organized 1890 at Hayrick, first county seat of Coke County. Moved to Robert Lee 1891. This hall was built in 1906 by a contractor, S.C. Wilkins, of concrete blocks mixed and cast by hand.
First story has housed many businesses, U.S. of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T5E_fence-cutting-war-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
This area was a center of hostilities during 1880's conflict between landless cattlemen trying to keep use of free grass and open range and those erecting barbed wire fences to create permanent ranches. On L.B. Harris Ranch (3 mi. W. of here) post…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T5D_county-named-for-texas-confederate-richard-coke-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
Virginia native. Leader Texas secession movement. Joined army, rose to captain 15th Texas Infantry company serving in Louisiana, Arkansas, chiefly Tennessee campaigns. Elected to State Supreme Court 1866, removed by reconstruction military authori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T5C_first-methodist-church-of-robert-lee-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
The Rev. Green Cotton Fields organized this Methodist congregation in January 1891. A one-room frame sanctuary built on this site in 1896 was replaced by a second structure in 1907. This structure was completed in 1928, during the pastorate of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T56_locklin-bartholomew-murray-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
Born in Jackson, Miss. Came to Texas with family in early 1860s. Married Susan Lucinda McSpadden (1855-1917), and had 7 children who lived to adulthood. Settled near Sanco, in Yellow Wolf Valley, about 1888, and began ranching.
In 1894 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T54_cary-allen-gates-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
Born near town of Paint Lick, Kentucky. Came to Collin County, Texas, 1858. Joined Confederate army at McKinney, October, 1861, as private in Army of Tennessee.
Served in five divisions. Was in Battle of Chickamauga; hurt at Murfreesbor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T45_natural-landmark-shelving-rock-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
Archeological findings at an overhanging rock ledge on Walnut Creek show that the spot, midway between the Colorado and North Concho Rivers, was for hundreds of years campsite or village of nomadic Indians who sought the shelter, running water, wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T44_divide-cemetery-historical_Robert-Lee-TX.html
In 1896 the Smith and Chapman families donated 4 acres here for a cemetery and church lot. A sanctuary for all faiths was built on the site the same year to serve the scattered ranches along the divide between the watersheds of the Colorado and No…