Woodsboro Square
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N 28° 14.375 W 097° 19.724
14R E 663971 N 3124874
This small post-mounted marker stands near a water pump windmill in the southeast corner of the town square in Woodsboro.
Waymark Code: WM15AYP
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2021
Views: 5
Marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission.
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry Woodsboro Square
Address Second and Wood Avenue
City Woodsboro
County Refugio
Subject Codes cities and towns; parks
Marker Year 1998
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 12169
Marker Text:
A land development project of W. C. Johnson and George P. Pugh of Danville, Illinois, this town along the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway was laid out in late 1906. A post office was established in the Bonnie View Land Company Hotel in 1907, and the town was named for Captain Tobias D. Wood, who had sole his Bonnie View Ranch to Johnson and Pugh. A public square was included in the official town plat in 1908 and it became the center of the economic growth and civic enterprises that characterized the early development of Woodsboro. The Woodsboro Commercial Club was founded in 1914. Among its more lasting contributions was a waterworks installed in the town square. The town was incorporated in 1929. The plaza remains a center for civic activities in Woodsboro. (1999)
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