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By Richard E. Miller, circa 1984
Kendleton Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Loop State Highway 541 north of U.S. 59. |
| | The site on which Kendleton now stands was originally a Mexican land grant to settler Elizabeth Powell, whose house was an early-day stage stop.
During the Texas Revolution, in 1836, Santa Anna's Mexican Army camped near here. Later the . . . — — Map (db m4419) HM |
| On State Highway 2919 near Powell Point School Road, on the left when traveling west. |
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William E. Kendall, an Anglo lawyer from Richmond, Texas, subdivided his plantation here into 100-acre farm tracts in 1869. He sold the land exclusively to Freedmen and by the 1880s a distinctly African American community named Kendleton had . . . — — Map (db m201991) HM |
May. 3, 2024
