Texas Historical Marker

Dotey-Kirkham House (Little Old House)

Cleburne · Johnson County · placed 1965 · Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

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Johnson County, Texas

The story

Believed to have been built in the late 1860s or early 1870s, soon after Cleburne was established, the house is within “water-totin” distance of what became known as City Spring on West Buffalo Creek. This single-story, white clapboard southern colonial cottage was originally the home of Martha Elizabeth Featherston (Aunt Pat) Dotey, sister of prominent Cleburne educator W. B.

Featherston (1817-1878). The T.P. Kirkham family acquired the house in 1912 and retained it until 1965.

Mr. Kirkham added the rock structure behind the house for use in his business as a hatter. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965

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