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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2363_wilson-mercantile-company_Wilson-TX.html
Founded 1910 by William Green, son of a family who settled in South Texas more than a century ago. The townsite was part of four leagues of Wilson County school lands bought 1906 by Green and Associates. Green later bought out his associates, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2362_spanish-explorers-route_Wilson-TX.html
A prehistoric road discovered and used by Indians, Spaniards, United States Army units, and cattle drovers. It crossed the Llano Estacado from Gholson Spring (7 mi. E. of present-day Slaton), to Tahoka Lake (3 mi. S. of Wilson), then to Tobacco Cr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2361_site-of-mackenzie-cavalry-camp_Wilson-TX.html
At or near this spot, Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, with two companies of United States 4th Cavalry, was overtaken on Dec. 4, 1874, by a snowstorm. Forced to spend the night here without wood or water, or grass for the horses, troops called this th…
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