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Curry is a ghost town in Milam County, Texas, United States. By 1903, two segregated schools were established, with 60 students total. It was abandoned by 1941. [1]
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Curry is a ghost town in Milam County, Texas, United States. By 1903, two segregated schools were established, with 60 students total. It was abandoned by 1941. [1]
Milam County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 24,754. The county seat is Cameron. The county was created in 1834 as a municipality in Mexico and organized as a county in 1837. Milam County is named for Benjamin Rush Milam, an early settler and a soldier in the Texas Revolution.
Garza County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,816, of which most of the population were residing in its county seat, and only incorporated municipality, Post. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1907. Garza is named for a pioneer Bexar County family, as it was once a part of that county.
Falls County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 16,968. The county seat is Marlin. It is named for the original 10-foot-tall waterfall on the Brazos River, which existed until the river changed course during a storm in 1866. The present falls is two miles northeast of the original falls, at the Falls on the Brazos Park, a camping site only a few miles out of Marlin on Farm to Market Road 712.
Cameron is a city in Milam County, Texas, United States. Its population was 5,306 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Milam County.
Jesse Bartley Milam (1884–1949) was best known as the first Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation appointed by a U.S. president since tribal government had been dissolved before Oklahoma Statehood in 1907. He was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, who reappointed him in 1942 and 1943; he was reappointed by President Harry S. Truman in 1948. He died while in office in 1949.
The Central Texas Council of Governments (CTCOG) is a voluntary association of cities, counties and special districts in Central Texas.
James Long was an American filibuster who led an unsuccessful expedition to seize control of Spanish Texas between 1819 and 1821.
Nashville was a community, now a ghost town, on the southeastern bank of the Brazos River in present-day Milam County, Texas, United States.
Ben Arnold is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Milam County, Texas, United States. Ben Arnold (Benarnold) is on U.S. Highway 77, seven miles north of Cameron in northern Milam County.
The West Texas Historical Association is an organization of both academics and laypersons dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the total history of West Texas, loosely defined geographically as all Texas counties and portions of counties located west of Interstate 35.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Milam County, Texas.
Bryant Station is a ghost town in Milam County, Texas, United States, located 12 miles west of Cameron on the Little River.
The Milam County Courthouse and Jail are two separate historic county governmental buildings located diagonally opposite each other in Cameron, Milam County, Texas. The Milam County Courthouse, located at 100 South Fannin Avenue, was built in 1890–1892, while the Milam County Jail, now known as the Milam County Museum, was built in 1895. On December 20, 1977, they were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single entry.
Robertson's Colony was an empresario colonization effort during the Mexican Texas period. It is named after Sterling C. Robertson, but had previously been known by other names. It has also been referred to as the Nashville Colony, after the Tennessee city where the effort originated, the Texas Association, the Upper Colony, and Leftwich's Grant, named after early colonizer Robert Leftwich. The eventual contract spread over an area that includes all or part of thirty present-day counties in Texas.
Sarahville de Viesca or Fort Milam or Bucksnort is a ghost town in Falls County, Texas, United States. The settlement was established in 1834 by Sterling C. Robertson and named for his mother Mrs. Sarah Robertson and Agustín Viesca, the Mexican governor of Coahuila y Tejas. The site was located at the falls of the Brazos River, where the river formerly dropped 10 feet (3 m) and where a well-used ford was located. The town was temporarily deserted in 1836 during the Runaway Scrape and permanently abandoned soon afterward because of native American raids. Fort Milam was built on the west-bank site but abandoned a few years later in favor of the town of Bucksnort, which occupied the east bank. Bucksnort vanished when the nearby town of Marlin was founded. There is a county park and historical marker located where Farm to Market Road 712 crosses the Brazos, south of Marlin.
The Gaines–Oliphint House is a historic log cabin in Milam, Sabine County, Texas.
Curry's Creek was a settlement that ran for five miles along Curry Creek, west and south of Kendalia in Kendall County, Texas, United States. The settlement was founded in 1850. In the 1850s, Currey's Creek had a population of 100 or more. Judge Samuel B. Patton moved to Currey's Creek in 1847, when the area was still in Blanco County.
Port Sullivan, Texas is a ghost town in Milam County, Texas. It was established in 1835 by Augustus W. Sullivan. By the 1850s, Joseph P. Sneed, a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, founded the Port Sullivan Male and Female Institute. The town is home to the Port Sullivan Cemetery.
Santiago del Valle was a Mexican hacendado and government official for Coahuila y Tejas during the Texas Revolution. Del Valle obtained a land grant from the Mexican government, which led to the founding of Galveston, Texas and several towns in Travis County, including Del Valle, which is named in his honor. In 1825, he served as president of the Congreso Constituyente of the state of Coahuila y Tejas, counselor to governor Victor Blanco, and as the arbitrator in a feud between the Sánchez Navarro and Elizondo families.
Bowers is a ghost town in Milam County, Texas, United States. It was established by 1941 as a switch on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
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