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Site of the first agency, January 1845, of the Texian Land and Emigration Company. Generally known as "Peters' Colony" in honor of William S. Peters who, under a colonization contract secured in 1841 from the Republic of Texas, introduced more than ten thousand settlers to 17 counties of North Texas.


Erected by the State of Texas, 1936.

Pepperwood St. & W.M. Dodson Pkwy., city hall, Farmers Branch, Dallas County Texas

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