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Booker

  Texas Historical Markers
SH 23 and SH 16, Booker, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 36° 27' 21.20068000008", -100° 31' 50.4880299984"
 
    Texas State
Historical Marker
     Platted 1917 by Thomas C. Spearman, Santa Fe Railway official. Named for railroad locating engineer, B. F. Booker. Town of La Kemp, Oklahoma (6 miles north) moved here 1919. First train arrived July 4, 1919, official birthdate of Booker. Economy based on farming, cattle and (since 1956) oil and gas production. (1969)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Booker Historical Marker Location Map, Texas