Nine Miles West is the Enchanted Rock
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 32.601 W 098° 42.280
14R E 528328 N 3379032
Located at the intersection of Ranch Road 965 and TX-16.
Waymark Code: WM10QCD
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/10/2019
Views: 10
A 1936 gray granite Texas Centennial marker. It has been vandalized. The star is missing from inside the circle of leaves.
Marker Number: 14653
Marker Text:
From its summit, in the fall of 1841
Captain John C. Hays
while surrounded by Comanche
Indians who cut him off from his
ranging company, repulsed the
whole band and inflicted upon them
such heavy loss that they fled.Erected by the State of Texas 1936
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