Historic Markers - Groom TX886

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Groom TX886

Founded 1902 by W.S. Wilkerson, local landowner, when Rock Island Railroad built west; named for Col. B.B. Groom, 1880s agent of Franklyn Land & Cattle Co. Col. Groom was first to try power farming on Plains. Town is today hub of rich farming and ranching area.

State Historical Survey Committee, 1968.

203 Broadway St., city hall lawn, Groom, Carson County Texas


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