(Former) Blue Gap, TX (Discontinued before zipcodes invented)
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WalksfarTX
N 31° 57.501 W 099° 57.759
14R E 409029 N 3536222
First post office in Runnels County. Named for gap in Table Mountain. Established Feb. 14, 1878; used until transferred in 1882 to the town of Content 2 miles north.
Waymark Code: WMXNM8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2018
Views: 4
THE HISTORICAL
MARKER DATABASELast postmaster was A. A. Hanscomb. The one-room structure has hand-hewn cedar rafters, hand-made shingle roof and walls of roughly-hewn logs. Also served as a stop on the Round Rock to Buffalo Gap stage route.
A Texas state marker on the Blue Gap Post Office was originally installed in May 1963 near Blue Gap in the northeast corner of Runnels County. The original 1963 Texas State Historical Survey Committee marker medallion is set in a concrete block below the current marker.
Originally located 16 miles east of Winters. Donated to the Z.I. Hale Museum in 2000. Reconstructed in Winters in 2013.
Type of structure:: Stand alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: None (town of Blue Gap gone before zipcodes invented)
Current Status:: Former Historic Location
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