MARTIN COUNTY, TEXAS
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Independence, Martin County, Texas Independence was in north central Martin
County. In 1901 Lee Kirkpatrick, a cowboy employed by Christopher Columbus Slaughter,qv
filed on land that would later be the site of the rural community. A school, a mile north
of the Three Leagues Gin (see THREE LEAGUE, TEXAS), opened in 1929 and closed four years
later. The community of Independence no longer exists. |
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