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| Attraction: |
Early Site of Bell Factory: Texas Historical Marker |
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Jefferson |
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Marion |
| Website: |
http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5315008029 |
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| Description |
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From
a log blacksmith shop in 1854 grew a bell foundry owned by G. A. Kelly
which manufactured cowbells widely used by pioneer ox-team freighters.
Later the Kelly plow, one of the first modern plows made in Texas,
was manufactured here.
Marker located at SH 49 and FM 729, 4 mi. from Jefferson
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