Butterfield Overland Mail
N 32° 44.133 W 099° 31.034
14S E 451538 N 3622088
The Butterfield Overland Mail route passed this way back in 1858, and the D.A.R. placed a "State Approved Marker" here a hundred years later to commemorate it.
Waymark Code: WM11GK5
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/21/2019
Views: 7
The Atlas describes the monument as "a slab of Leuders stone, five feet high, three and a half feet wide, twelve inches thick, inscribed on one side only." It is nearly fourteen miles northwest of Albany in a pullout along US 180, where you'll also find the Texas Historical Marker for the Bud Matthews Switch of the Texas Central Railway, an old cattle car, and a few other interesting things.
Marker Number: 584
Marker Text:
The Trail of the
Butterfield
Overland Mail
passed this point
1858
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Lee's Legion Chapter
D.A.R.
1958
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