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Marker No: 159

Medallion & Plate

Texas Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places

Marker Text: ​Built 1860 at edge of an old Indian campground by James B. Anderson, one of town's founders and a school trustee in Salado. Community leaders, lawyers and doctors have lived here.
    Boarding here in 1883 while a student at old Salado College was James E. Ferguson, 1915-1917 governor of Texas--and husband of the first woman governor. Under paneling are cedar walls, window glass is hand blown. (1965)

Geographic: 30.946133, 97.536850

Location: ​35 Main Street, Salado