FIRST - Courthouse & School - Lipscomb, TX
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YoSam.
N 36° 14.008 W 100° 16.544
14S E 385358 N 4010598
Smallest town in the county and it is the county seat...
Waymark Code: WM134XW
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/17/2020
Views: 1
County of Marker: Lipscomb County
Location of Marker: TX-305 & Spur 188, @ Wolf Creek Heritage Museum, Lipscomb
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee
Date Marker Erected: 1968
Marker Text:
LIPSCOMB, TEXAS
Established, 1886 by settlers hoping to benefit from proposed Santa Fe Railroad in Panhandle.
Post office was opened in 1886; Lipscomb Town Company sold land for $3 an acre in 1887. In first month, seven businesses started.
When county was organized in 1887, Lipscomb became seat, named for A.S. Lipscomb, secretary of state in Republic of Texas and Justice of State Supreme Court. Hotel from undeveloped town of Dominion was moved here, 1887.
First courthouse was built in 1887. The first school -- in a church -- had 25 pupils, 1888. A new courthouse was erected, 1916.
(1968)
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