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Sharing with others
If you have family history,
stories, photos, books, marriages, births &
death records. Newspaper clippings such as obits,
birth, wedding, military, wills or other data
about Midland County. Send the files to me and I
will upload it. Your help is greatly appreciated!
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Counties
Surrounding Midland County
HISTORY
The
county was named for its location halfway between
Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific
Railway. Promotions by the Texas and Pacific
Railway, which built into the area in 1881, brought
other sheepmen to what is now Midland County. Nelson
Morris, a Chicago meatpacker who bought 200,000
acres from the state for his Black Angus ranch, was
the first to fence county land. Cattle were
introduced after ranchers discovered that abundant
water could be obtained from wells. In 1885, when
300 people were living in the area, the Texas state
legislature established Midland County from lands
previously assigned to Tom Green County, and the
county was organized later that same year. The town
of Midland, originally named Midway to suggest its
place on the Fort Worth-El Paso rail line, became
county seat. --
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