Colbert's Ferry
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txoilgas
N 33° 49.123 W 096° 32.150
14S E 728069 N 3744786
One of two markers at the Texas Infomation rest area.
Waymark Code: WMAH2D
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/15/2011
Views: 17
Marker Number: 7351
Marker Text:
Established about 1853 by Benjamin F. Colbert. Across it came thousands of immigrants into Texas in the fifties. The stages of the Southern Overland Mail Line, which provided mail and passenger service between St. Louis and San Francisco, crossed there, 1858 to 1861. Abandoned in 1931 when a highway bridge spanned the Red River.
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