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Formed from Young & Bexar territories: Created, August 21, 1876 Organized, February 21, 1889 Named in honor of William Beck Ochiltree, 1811-1867, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Texas, 1842, Secretary of the Treasury, 1844, the last Attorney General of the Republic of Texas, member of the Texas Legislature, 1855; delegate to the Secession Convention of 1861, colonel in the Confederate army. County Seat Ochiltree, 1889 Perryton, since 1920. (1936)
Ochiltree County is a historical marker in Perryton, Ochiltree County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 10 historical markers documented in Ochiltree County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 13 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 36.4105, -100.8025 near Perryton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Gray Community Church (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Plainview Hardware Company Building, Sanitarium, First, and Perry, George Morgan.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5357003662. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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