Maverick County
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N 28° 42.514 W 100° 30.083
14R E 353347 N 3176621
A Texas state highway department pink granite county marker on the south side of the Maverick County Courthouse grounds.
Waymark Code: WMPNB8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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One of 254 state highway pink granite block county markers, this one stands at the south entrance to the Maverick County Courthouse.
Marker Number: 3260

Marker Text:
Created Feb. 2, 1856, from Kinney county. Organized July 13, 1871. Named for Texas Revolution veteran, signer of declaration of Independence, Texas Legislator Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870). The county centers in an area of dairies, farming, ranching. Hard-travelled El Camino Real (path into Texas History for Louis St. Denis, Spanish Missionaries, Moses Austin and countless troops and settlers) crossed the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, the county seat. Site of Spanish Mission ruins, military posts. Fort Duncan, now a military park, housed both U.S. and confederate troops. (1965)


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