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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM232A_lynn-county_Tahoka-TX.html
Created 1876 from Bexar Territory. Name honors G. W. Lynn, "One of those who baptized the altar of Texas with life blood at the Alamo". Tahoka Lake and Double Lakes Springs were watering places on Indian, Spanish, U. S. Army and cattle-driving tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2328_lynn-county-courthouse_Tahoka-TX.html
In 1876 the Texas legislature created Lynn County, which organized in 1903 with Tahoka as county seat. A two-story frame structure on this site served as courthouse until citizens approved a bond election for the current building in Jul. 1915. Des…
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This property
has been placed on the
National Register
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Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2325_tahoka_Tahoka-TX.html
In Dec. 1902, over 100 people met around a bonfire in a ravine to the southwest of Tahoka Lake and voted to petition for county organization and to select a townsite for a county seat to be named "Tahoka," an Indian word meaning "fresh water", Ear…
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Formed from
Young and Bexar Territories
Created August 21, 1876
Organized April 15, 1903
Named in honor of
Granderson Washington Lynn
Who fell at the Alamo
Tahoka, County Seat