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Doan’s Adobe House

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c. 1880. RR 2916 at RR 924

The Western Trail crossed the Red River here where millions of South Texas longhorns and mustang ( mesteño) horses were driven north to the Dodge City, Kansas, railheads in the 1870s. In 1878, Ohio-born Jonathan Doan and his wife Lide, the first Anglo-American settlers in Wilbarger County, established a trading post here with their nephew Corwin F. Doan. Corwin Doan built this adobe house, uncommon construction in North Texas, as a trading post to conduct business with the trail drivers heading north and the Indians at the Fort Sill reservation. A fire in 1922 destroyed all but the eighteen-inch-thick adobe walls; the roofs, windows, and doors seen today were replaced after the fire. The house is all that remains of a modest town. The house and surrounding lands remain in the Doan family.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Doan’s Adobe House", [Vernon, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AQ31.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 325-325.

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