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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29NE_site-of-homestead-of-william-c-sublett_Odessa-TX.html
Born 1835 in Alabama. Moved to north Texas before the Civil War, in which he served as a Confederate.
After his wife died in 1874, he went to the Texas frontier to hunt Buffalo, taking his three young children with him. In 1881-1882 he supplie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29ND_sewell-ford_Odessa-TX.html
E.F. Sewell assembled and sold Model T Fords from his Arlington hardware store. Family moved to Crane in 1926 and established Ford dealership. In 1935 sons, Carl Sr. and Woody, purchased bankrupt Ford house in Odessa. At Texas and 2nd Street locat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29NC_temple-beth-el_Odessa-TX.html
By WWII about 20 Jewish families lived in the Permian Basin. They gathered for religious and social events at the Midland Bombardier Base. In 1945 they established congregation Temple Beth El, the only Synagogue within 140 miles. Built at 4th Stre…
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/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/HM1M2Z_the-henderson-house_Odessa-TX.html
Built in 1916 at Grant and Pearl Streets by pioneer drug store owner and postmaster W.T. Henderson, Sr. (1886-1960) and his wife Burmah Adele Lambert (1887-1964). In 1925 the house was moved to this address in the first neighborhood developed nort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2Y_mrs-john-l-morris_Odessa-TX.html
Originator, promoter of the Globe of the Great Southwest, world's most nearly authentic replica of the Globe theater in England made famous by the plays of William Shakespeare.
Mrs. Morris was educated at North Texas State University and joined…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2X_site-of-odessa-college_Odessa-TX.html
Established through efforts of Odessa Townsite Co., which gave $12,000; a northern Methodist group matched this fund in 1888.
Rev. M. A. Daugherty, Pittsburgh, Pa., was placed in charge, and a 20-acre plot was alloted to the college. Erection o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2W_site-of-the-dawson-saloon_Odessa-TX.html
Frontier business of S.T. (Tol) and E.F. (Lish) Dawson, brothers. Lish Dawson, 1891-92 Sheriff of Ector County, had a barber chair in the Saloon, and helped tend bar. Liquor was in 40-gallon barrels. Ice for drinks was hauled from Great Lakes by T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2F_the-jackrabbit_Odessa-TX.html
True plains rabbit. Lives only in the west. Burro-like ears gave him his name. Color is protective, blending with sand and dry grass. Very long legs make him a swift runner, clocked at speeds to 45 miles and hour. Object of hunts with Greyhounds.
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