Kone-Cliett House - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

The home is located at 724 Burleson Street in a neighborhood on a bluff overlooking the town of San Marcos. The marker is located at the street, while the home is up further on the hillside. Parking is a small pullover.

Marker Number: 10286 Marker Text: Edward Reeves Kone (1848-1933) served from the 1860s as Hays County attorney, sheriff, judge, and education superintendent, and from 1908 to 1914 as state agriculture commissioner. He bought this land on a bluff of the Balcones Fault in 1881 and built his house, a derivative of the Queen Anne style, about 1890. The Kone family sold the house in 1914 to cotton grower and later postmaster Oran W. Cliett (1882-1959), who lived here until 1958. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1986

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