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Bowser Community |
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Vargas Cemetery off FM 502, Richaland Springs,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 24' 21.48590999988",
-98° 58' 50.31712999992"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
About 1858 the Abel Bowser family settled at a large bend in the Colorado River about 3 miles north of this site. The developing village, school and cemetery became known as Bowser Bend and by the late 1880s included a cotton gin and store. Due to river floods, Paul Varga donated land at this site for a chapel and cemetery in 1890. In the early 1900s J. T. Martin sold town lots and deeded land for a school one-half mile east. The town of Bowser relocated, but the closure of the post office, gin and school caused it to decline in the 1940s.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Bowser Community Historical Marker Location Map, Richaland Springs, Texas
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