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Renderbrook Ranch |
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SH 16, on Spade Ranch, Colorado City,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
32° 8' 2.25390999984",
-100° 58' 3.98667"
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Texas State Historical Marker |
Founded in buffalo and Indian days of 1870's by Taylor Barr. Owned 1882-1889 by D.H. and J.W. Snyder. They built White House headquarters; sold ranch, 1889 to Isaac L. Ellwood, an inventor of barbed wire, in DeKalb, Illinois. Ellwood paid in wire for Spade cattle from Donley County, to stock ranch. Added Sterling and Coke lands to original 130,000 acres; to distinguish this from range bought 1902 near Lubbock, called this Renderbrook (from name of spring where Indians shot a U.S. Cavalry officer in the 1870's). Ellwood heirs still run Spade brand on 2 ranches. (1965)
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Renderbrook Ranch Historical Marker Location Map, Colorado City, Texas
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