The Wright-Vaughan House
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WalksfarTX
N 33° 11.329 W 095° 13.130
15S E 293146 N 3674413
Medallion & Plate attached to the house just to the right of the entrance.
Waymark Code: WMWWPH
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/23/2017
Views: 6
Marker tells the history of the house and the man who built it.
Marker Number: 9852
Marker Text:
Residence of Mt. Vernon's first physician, William C. Wright (1820-1890), a North Carolinian who married Mary Rutherford in Tennessee and moved here in 1850. About 1870, Dr. Wright built this house, making earlier home into hospital. (It was so used until 1945.) Dr. and Mrs. Wright gave (1889) this house to youngest daughter, Jennie (Mrs. Charles) Vaughan, whose daughter Jessie lived here until 1971.
Bought 1972 and restored by Ruth Elliott Monden. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
(1974)
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