Old Anderson Place
Salado, Bell County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Built 1860 at edge of an old Indian campground, by James B. Anderson, one of town's founders and a school trustee in Salado. Community leaders, lawyers and doctors have lived here. Boarding here in 1883 while a student at Old Salado College was James E. Ferguson, 1915-1917 Governor of Texas--and husband of the first woman Governor. Under panelling and cedar walls. Window glass is hand blown. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
James B. Anderson, one of Salado's founders and a school trustee, built this house in 1860 at the edge of an old Indian campground, and over the years it sheltered a string of the town's leaders, lawyers, and doctors. Its hand-blown window glass and cedar-and-panel walls survive from that era. Most notably, a young James E. Ferguson boarded here in 1883 while attending Old Salado College—decades before he became governor of Texas and husband of the state's first woman governor.
Why it matters
The house links Salado's frontier founding to Texas political history through the college town that educated a future governor.
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Related people
- · James B. Anderson
- · James E. Ferguson
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