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Freestone County, Texas
Historical Markers in Wortham, Texas
Duane tells the stories behind 5 Texas historical markers in Wortham, in Freestone County. Each one is hand-told in his own voice, with the official marker text right alongside. Common themes here: Oil Boom, Texas Music, Texas Revolution, and Native History. The markers on this list were placed between 1966 and 1972.
Start with these Wortham stories
- Robert B. Longbothamplaced 1966
(Dec. 29, 1797 - Aug. 6, 1883) Born in Sunderland, England. Came to America as carpenter's apprentice on a ship.
- Blind Lemon Jeffersonplaced 1967
Born near Wortham. As a young street musician, played a guitar and sang spirituals and blues.
- City of Worthamplaced 1972
Situated on grant given 1834 by Mexico to Robert B. Longbotham (1797-1883), a Texas colonist from England who settled here in 1839.
- The Wortham Oil Boomplaced 1972
The city of Wortham rejected a well drilled by C. L. Witherspoon in 1912 when it produced gas, not water.
- Wortham Schools
The first recorded school in the town of Wortham was a two-story frame structure built in the 1870s by the Masonic Lodge and local Methodist church.
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