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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LXY_site-of-blackshear-high-school_Odessa-TX.html
In early 1890, Inez Rathbun earned money teaching area students at the Ector County Courthouse. About the same time, Ector County organized a public school system. Over the next decades, the number of students in the area steadily increased. In 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LWU_the-odessa-telephone-exchange_Odessa-TX.html
Began operation about 1897, with Edna Fielding as "central" (operator). After Miss Fielding's death in 1902, the Rev. G. B. Ely, a baptist minister, purchased the exchange. Pioneer rancher A. Quincy Cooper bought the system in 1911, and extended s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E4H_odessa-meteor-crater_Odessa-TX.html
The Odessa Meteor Crater, second largest in the United States and sixth in the world, was formed some 20,000 years ago when an iron meteorite believed to weigh 1,000 tons crashed into the earth near this site. Impact was so great that 4.3 million …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E4G_comanche-war-trail_Odessa-TX.html
A barbed, bristling flying wedge—the Comanches—rode into 18th century Texas, driving the Wichitas and Caddoes east, the Apaches west, becoming lords of the south plains. Harassed the Spanish and Anglo-Americans along frontier from Corp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DQ0_notrees_Notrees-TX.html
Post Office established 1944 in drug store of C. J. Brown, Jr., who named it in response to U.S. Post Office Dept. request for title suitable to locality. Residents have since made history by planting shade trees. Now production hub of Permian Bas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTYW_general-matthew-d-ector_Odessa-TX.html
County Named for Texas ConfederateGeneral Matthew D. Ector1822-1879Enlisted 1861. Lieutenant 3rd Texas Cavalry. Fought in Arkansas, Missouri and Indian territory. As colonel led 14th Texas Cavalry Kentucky invasion. Made brigadier general 1862 to …
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