Harmonson Rancho
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N 33° 11.628 W 098° 43.673
14S E 525364 N 3672804
A marker describing some of the early developers of the area.
Waymark Code: WM9Z01
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/19/2010
Views: 10
Marker Number: 2384
Marker Text:
Kentucky native Peter Harmonson (1797-1865) came to Texas in 1845 as a settler in the Peters Colony. The following year he helped form Denton County, where he served as the first sheriff. In 1854 he brought his family here and established a ranch near this site known as Harmonson Rancho. An organizer of Young County, he served as its first chief justice. He died from a wound received in an Indian raid on the Elm Creek community. In 1869, after it was sold, his ranch site and his son Z. J. "Jack" Harmonson figured in a skirmish between Indians and local cattlemen. (1982)
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