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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MOU_the-caprock_Odessa-TX.html
A range of flat-topped ridges and cliffs stretching from Texas panhandle to 20 miles south of this point and extending into New Mexico. The name also refers to tough limestone that caps ridges. Rising sharply 200 to 1,000 ft. above plains. This se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MN1_ector-countys-first-dry-hole_Odessa-TX.html
Drilled in 1924 near this site. Geologists were forecasting oil and urgently needed potash, but Pennsylvania experts (using a chilled shop core drill) gave up the well at 900 feet, on "Red Bed" Rock—A substance new to them. Loss in this and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MN0_wells-point_Odessa-TX.html
In 1879 railroad headed west out of Fort Worth. Preceding construction-on land later in town of Odessa-water wells were dug in July, 1881. Town section was thereafter called "Well's Point". One well was unusable because of alkali; other two wells …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MMZ_penwell_Notrees-TX.html
Birthplace of Ector County's Oil boom. First civic development here was wide-open town, "Derrick City", platted March 1927, after Dec. 28, 1926, oil discovery by driller Josh Cosden on land of W. E. Connell, near the old farming and cattle station…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MM2_the-parker-family_Odessa-TX.html
In 1907 James Early "Jim" Parker, Jr. (1876-1954) acquired his first land: two sections divided by the Andrews and Ector County line. He and Bessie Ola Lindley (1887-1974) married in 1908 and had six children: Jackson, Ray, James Walter,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MLG_old-buffalo-wallow_Odessa-TX.html
The nearby depression survives from an epoch when great buffalo herds migrated through west Texas, many moving between present Canada and Mexico over two major trails in the Odessa area. Wallows began with individual buffalo rolling in the dirt to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MJ5_ector-county_Odessa-TX.html
Created February 26, 1887 from Tom Green County Organized January 15, 1891 Named in honor of Matthew Duncan Ector 1822-1879 Member of the Texas Legislature A Confederate Officer and outstanding jurist Odessa, The County Seat
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MJ4_emmet-v-headlee-m-d_Odessa-TX.html
Emmet V. Headlee was a fourth-generation physician; his great-grandfather, Elisha Headlee, was a civil war surgeon. His grandfather and father practiced medicine in Teague (Freestone Co.), and Emmet was born there in 1900. At age thirteen, he save…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MB7_legrande-survey-of-1833_Gardendale-TX.html
Made in era of Mexican rule in Texas for John Beales, who through partnerships, acquired 70,000,000 acres of land and gained the title of "Texas' largest land king". Alexander LeGrande's survey covered about 2,000 miles in west Texas,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MAR_near-site-of-baker-ranch-school_Gardendale-TX.html
Since there were no public schools in rural Ector County, R.W. Smith and Teague Baker in 1906 erected an 8'x10' school building in Baker's pasture. They hired a teacher at $15 a month, plus room and board, which each furnished on alternate months.…
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