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Cochran County: Mary McKnight

State:                Gina Heffernan

Marker Number: 4948
Title: Slaughter Ranch Headquarters
Location: Highway 1169
Year: 1962
Text: Made up of 246,669 acres of Cochran and Hockley county lands. Col. C. C. Salughter -- a leader in banking, ranching and religious life in Texas -- purchased land 1898-1901. First headquarters was a half-dugout. In 1915, C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company, Inc., brought men from Mexico to build this adobe and concrete quadrangle, on order of a Spanish hacienda. This was one of the finest Texas ranch buildings of its era.

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