​Site of Four Mile Dam (100 yards south)

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Marker Text: ​Built under an 1896 charter, obtained for the Junction City Irrigation and Power ditches, to furnish power for mills and mining supply city mains, water extensive lands and livestock.
      At first under engineering supervision of G.W. Ragsdill, a local man, then of R.J. Hand, San Antonio, project was sold 1903 to Jay E. Adams, San Antonio, and A.C. Green, of Palestine, Texas.
         Dam was native stone and cypress wood; ditches were 4 ft. deep, 20 ft. at top, 12 at bottom. 
         Big ditch carried water late in 1925; but was unprofitable. Charter was forfeited in 1950. (1967) 

Marker No: 4414

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.454134,-99.806053

Location: on US 377, 4 miles southwest of Junction