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ROBERT LEE, TEXAS

Coke County Seat, Texas Panhandle / West Texas
State Highways 208 and 158
31 miles N of San Angelo
36 miles NW of Ballinger

Population 1,171 (2000)

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Former Coke county jail, Robert Lee Texas
The former Coke County jail and historical marker
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, October 2003

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Lake E.V. Spence

Robert Lee History -

Robert Lee "... was founded by R. E. Cartledge and his father-in-law, L. B. Harris, who owned land at the site, and was named for Robert E. Lee. Cartledge and Harris pushed to move the county seat from nearby Hayrick to Robert Lee, ... in 1891 Robert Lee won the county seat election..." See Handbook of Texas Online
“When Robert Lee Gets a New Railroad"
A letter from Ruth Elliott Sellers

My mother and her family lived in Robert Lee when she was a teenager. As teenagers do, she picked up songs of that era. “When Robert Lee Gets a New Railroad" was written about the time that the towns of Robert Lee and Bronte vied over who would get the railroad. (The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient - later bought by what is now the Sante Fe.) Robert Lee lost and the railway was completed to Bronte in 1907... more
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