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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2754_ozona-junior-high-school_Ozona-TX.html
The first permanent school building in Ozona; constructed of native limestone in 1910-1912, when Ozona was only 21 years old. The heating and ventilating system, never before used in the state when installed here, is still in operation daily. C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2725_ozonas-water-system_Ozona-TX.html
This site was selected for the Crockett County seat in 1891 because of a producing water well (200' northwest). Joe Moss, who drilled for water throughout the area, dug the well for E. M. Powell (1847-1925), railroad surveyor, financier, and land …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2723_david-crockett_Ozona-TX.html
(Inscription on front of monument) .. Be sure you are right - then go ahead .. (Inscription on rear of monument) David Crockett was born in Tennessee on August 17, 1786 Participated in the Creek Indian Campaign 1813-1814 Member of the T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2720_ozonas-first-water-well_Ozona-TX.html
Focus for civic life in early Ozona. City founder E. M. Powell provided the water well equipped with 18-foot windmill, a water trough, and a small cypress tank. At first meeting of Crockett County Commissioners Court, July 22, 1891, under a li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26XG_the-ozona-stockman_Ozona-TX.html
In 1892 Claude B. Hudspeth (1877-1941) began publication of a weekly newspaper called the "Ozona Kicker." Following his three-year ownership, Hudspeth entered politics, serving first in the Texas Legislature and later as representative from the Si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26WL_old-ozona-hotel_Ozona-TX.html
Built about 1893. From its early days, boarded teachers, visiting athletic teams and business callers in city. Noted guests of 1919-1921 were geologists and lease men seeking to develop the now-significant oil fields of Crockett County. Rec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26VA_crockett-county-courthouse_Ozona-TX.html
Built 1902. Second courthouse for county. American Gothic architecture, planned by Oscar Ruffini, San Angelo. Material is fine stone quarried nearby on Meyer and Couch properties. Cost $30,000. Early day community social center. Used for cowboy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26US_ozona-national-bank_Ozona-TX.html
Constructed 1905 for county's first financial institution. Organized by cattle and sheep ranchers and the town's doctor. During construction of native stone building, banking was done next door in store of L. B. Cox, vice-president. J. W. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26UO_high-lonesome-stage-stand_Ozona-TX.html
First station after leaving Ozona on the San Angelo-Ozona mail line. Here, at the 20-mile point of an 86-mile run, fresh horses awaited. The stand, built in 1902, served one of Texas' last commercial stage lines. Ten horses were kept here, as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26UL_ozona-barnhart-trap-company_Ozona-TX.html
By the 1920s many ranchers in Crockett County had fenced their land, preventing their neighbors from driving sheep and cattle to the railroad shipping point in Barnhart (23 miles north of here). A solution to the problem was offered by the Ozona-B…
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