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Historic
Texas CemeteryENGLEWOOD
CEMETERY
Lubbock CountyN.
20th and Woodrow Road
Slaton,
Texas |
Historical
Marker Text Englewood
CemeteryRepresenting
the Santa Fe Railroad, W.B. Storey, Jr. bought the future townsite of Slaton
on April 15, 1911. The railroad's plans included a roundhouse, switch lines, depot
and Harvey House,
making Slaton a center for
area rail transport. Rail employees and others quickly populated the city, which
incorporated in October 1912. By that time, residents had established this cemetery
with the burial of infant J.W. Ohrion earlier in the year. Among the thousands
of graves here are several unmarked burials in a potter's field and veterans of
military conflicts dating to the Civil War.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004 | |
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