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The
former Coke County jail and historical marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, October 2003 |
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
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“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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