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Williams Ranch cattle trade town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, Seated dimes, cartridge cases, spurs and tack.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1855-1890s ranching and stage town
Williams Ranch, the oldest community in Mills County, grew from 1855 around springs on Mullin Creek into a town with a hotel, store, school, saloons, a mill and a stage stop on the Austin to Fort Concho road. It was a center of the western cattle trade in 1872 to 1875 and peaked around 250 people in the early 1880s; its post office closed in 1892.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
rattlesnakes
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