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Historical feature -- Part 1

  • University of North texas - The Portal to Texas History Circled here is the “Lampaces Creek” in the Milam Disrict of Texas, from a section of the Carl Flemming Republic of Texas map, dated 1839.
    University of North texas - The Portal to Texas History Circled here is the “Lampaces Creek” in the Milam Disrict of Texas, from a section of the Carl Flemming Republic of Texas map, dated 1839.
    Before selling lots for a townsite here, Burleson claims land ‘unfit for cultivation’ Editor’s note: Lampasas historian Jeff Jackson has researched a number of history topics. The following tells of an early land dispute over acreage that would become the city of Lampasas. The Colver v. Burleson land fraud case was filed in United States Distr...

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