Hermleigh


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Marker Number: 2463 
Marker Title: Hermleigh 
Index Entry: Hermleigh 
Address: Willis Ave. & Wheat St. 
City: Hermleigh 
County: Scurry 
UTM Zone: 14 
UTM Easting: 334645 
UTM Northing: 3612302 
Subject Codes: CY; RR 
Year Marker Erected: 1966 
Designations: na 
Marker Location: Willis Avenue and Wheat Street, Hermleigh. 
Marker Size: 18" x 28" 
Repairs Completed:  
Marker Text: Townsite surveyed 1907 by H. W. Harlin and R. C. Herm, on Roscoe, 
Snyder & Pacific Railroad. Post office, store and church moved here from Wheat, 
community to the northeast. In 1907 New Town--a trade center for livestock farmers-
-had 2 banks, a lumber yard, a newspaper; 2-story brick school was built 1909. 
Santa Fe Railroad came through in 1911. In 1918, a war hero was honored by town's 
name change to "Foch". Old name was reinstated 1921. Six miles east is Sand Stone Canyon,
 with Indian pictographs. Skeletons of extinct mammals have been excavated nearby. (1966)