Details for Odessa Land & Townsite Company
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5135003667
Data
Marker Number | 3667 |
Atlas Number | 5135003667 |
Marker Title | Odessa Land & Townsite Company |
Index Entry | Odessa Land & Townsite Company |
Address | 205 N. Grant Ave. |
City | Odessa |
County | Ector |
UTM Zone | 13 |
UTM Easting | 749063 |
UTM Northing | 3526429 |
Subject Codes | railroads; land surveys, land companies, promotional towns |
Marker Year | 1967 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
Marker Location | 205 N. Grant St., Odessa |
Private Property | No |
Marker Condition | In Situ |
Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
Marker Text | The Texas & Pacific Railroad transferred 640 acres of its land grants here in 1886 to John Hoge of Zanesville, Ohio. He formed the Odessa land & townsite company to promote sale of town lots. Prime house lots sold for $150 and business lots for $200. Literature was distributed in eastern states citing rich soil, pure water, healthful climate, and railroad sponsored excursion trains with free sleeping cars for prospective Byers form 1886 to 1889. A small frame building on this site, razed in 1911, served as the land office, and later as a school and church. |