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ROBERT
LEE, TEXAS
Coke County Seat,
West Texas/Texas Panhandle
State Highways 208 and 158
31 miles N of San Angelo
36 miles NW of Ballinger
Population 1,171 (2000)
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Your Hotel Here & Save
San
Angelo Hotels |
The former
Coke County jail and historical marker
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, October 2003 |
Robert Lee
Attractions
Lake E.V. Spence |
Robert Lee
History -
Robert
Lee "... was founded by R. E. Cartledge and his father-in-law,
L. B. Harris, who owned land at the site, and was named for Robert
E. Lee. Cartledge and Harris pushed to move the county seat from nearby
Hayrick to Robert Lee, ... in 1891 Robert Lee won the county seat
election..." See Handbook of Texas Online
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/RR/hjr10.html |
“When
Robert Lee Gets a New Railroad"
A letter from Ruth Elliott Sellers
My mother and her family lived in Robert Lee when she was a teenager.
As teenagers do, she picked up songs of that era. “When Robert
Lee Gets a New Railroad" was written about the time that the towns
of Robert Lee and Bronte
vied over who would get the railroad. (The Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient - later bought by what is now the Sante Fe.) Robert Lee lost
and the railway was completed to Bronte in 1907. more |
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