Details for Hoggett Home
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5267002321
Data
Marker Number | 2321 |
Atlas Number | 5267002321 |
Marker Title | Hoggett Home |
Index Entry | Hoggett Home |
Address | Old Hwy 377 |
City | Junction |
County | Kimble |
UTM Zone | 14 |
UTM Easting | 420982 |
UTM Northing | 3368316 |
Subject Codes | houses, residential buildings; women, women's history topics |
Marker Year | 1965 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | Yes |
Marker Location | Off Old Hwy 377 on private property. Map dot approximate. |
Private Property | Yes |
Marker Condition | |
Marker Size | Medallion & Plate |
Marker Text | First two-story house in county. Built 1877-1879 on the caliche soil, with no foundation, by Civil War veteran B.F. Pepper, who led a wagon train of settlers to Texas from Missouri. Since 1905 in family of Dr. R.H.P. Wright. The girlhood home of Fay Wright, 1941-1947, First Lady of Texas, as wife of Governor Coke Stevenson. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965. |