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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D2R_early-bell-foundry_Jefferson-TX.html
Early Bell Foundry. . Site of an Early Bell Foundry. 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 …
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First Ice Factory in Texas. . Site of the First Ice Factory In Texas. Established by Boyle and Scott about 1875. Sold ice at ten cents per pound, B.J. Benefield delivered it. The plant was later moved to Harrisburg. var plainT…
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Kellyville. . . Named for George Addison Kelly - Died 1909 - Proprietor of an early foundry which cast cow bells widely used bu ox-team freighters. After 1860 his factory turned out the first modern plows used in Texas. var pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29J5_marion-county-confederate-monument-a-war-memorial_Jefferson-TX.html
Lest We Forget In Memory of Our Dead 1861—1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295H_vernon-dalhart_Jefferson-TX.html
Born in Jefferson, Vernon Dalhart (Marion Try Slaughter II) began his career here at Kahn Saloon, starred later in operas in New York, and recorded for Edison's talking machine. His rendition of "The Prisoner's Song" (1924) was the first folk ball…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295G_kahn-saloon_Jefferson-TX.html
Built during the early 1860s, this structure served as a boarding house and as a mercantile before opening as the Kahn Saloon about 1900. Temperance movement leader Carrie Nation was denied entrance here during one of her campaigns through Texas. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295F_old-livery-stable_Jefferson-TX.html
Near Trammel's Trace, a road charted 1813, used by thousands of settlers migrating to Texas. Site was owned 1868 by D. B. Culberson, later a congressman and a lawyer for defense in the Diamond Bessie murder trial. Culberson's 2-story building here…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295E_brown-building_Jefferson-TX.html
Old home of Jefferson "Jimplecute" and other newspapers, and the Chesterfield Social Club. Now Brown Building. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295D_immaculate-conception-catholic-church_Jefferson-TX.html
This parish began in 1863 when Father Jean Marie Giraud held mass for Catholic residents of Jefferson. Immaculate Conception grew as a church and by 1867, members completed the first building. In 1869, the church opened a school and the next year …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295C_the-brooks-house_Jefferson-TX.html
Built 1872 in Victorian style, with long galleries, bay window, 4 gables. Then a hotel, it became famous when guest "Diamond Bessie" Moore was killed west of town at a picnic in 1877. Fellow guest Abe Rothchild, cited for murder, was freed after s…
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