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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…
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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 of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior
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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
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