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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23QT_leakey-cemetery_Leakey-TX.html
Originally known as the Floral Cemetery and serving an earlier community by that name, this cemetery dates to at least 1881. Land for the graveyard was sold by John and Nancy Leakey for one dollar and a cemetery plot.
The oldest documented buri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23QS_john-leakey_Leakey-TX.html
Tennessee native John Leakey (1824-1900) came to Texas in 1847, settling for a time in Henderson County where he was a brickmason and rancher. He and his wife Nancy (Patterson) moved to Uvalde County in 1852 near present day Sabinal. A desire to p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23QR_real-county_Leakey-TX.html
The location of Real County lies at the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau along the Balcones Escarpment, an area of rugged mountains and canyons named for the Frio, Sabinal and Nueces Rivers. The county line between Edwards County and Bandera C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23QQ_real-county_Leakey-TX.html
Located on the Edwards Plateau, Real County is in an area of rolling terrain broken by the canyons of the Frio River. Because of raids by Comanche, Apache, and Lipan Apache Indians, white settlement was hindered until after 1881. Mission San Loren…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23QP_real-county-courthouse_Leakey-TX.html
Leakey was the county seat of Edwards County from 1883 to 1891 when a vote moved the seat to Rocksprings. Real County, named for businessman and State Senator Julius Real, was organized from parts of Edwards, Kerr and Bandera counties in April 191…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG8Y_vance-cemetery_Barksdale-TX.html
One of the earliest settlers of this area was Henry Wells (1850-1923), who first came to the Neuces Canyon in 1866. He founded the town of Bullhead in 1873. The name was changed to Vance in the mid-1880's.
In 1875 a guest in the home of the Wel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6A_site-of-camp-wood_Camp-Wood-TX.html
Established May 20, 1857, as a means of preventing Indian raids on the San Antonio—El Paso route and the Rio Grande Valley · Abandoned March 15th, 1861, when federal troops were withdrawn from Texas.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG69_site-of-the-mission-san-lorenzo-de-la-santa-cruz_Camp-Wood-TX.html
Founded by the Franciscan Missionaries among the Lipan Apache Indians in 1762 · Abandoned in 1769
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG65_site-of-mclaurin-massacre_Mountain-Home-TX.html
On April 19, 1881, Catherine "Kate" Ringer McLaurin (Sometimes McLauren) was with her three small children and 14-year old Allen Lease in the garden when a band of Lipan Apaches started to plunder her home. Lease, thinking there were pigs in the h…