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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/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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