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Civil War Veterans Reunion

  Texas Historical Markers
19th St. and 12th Ave., Canyon, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 34° 56' 53.57960999988", -101° 52' 42.65616"
 
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    Celebrated annually in Canyon 1900-1910, these reunions were a focal point of social life. Each summer several thousand people arrived by horseback, train, buckboard, and covered wagon. Here they pitched tents and built fires to cook meals. Members of the Stonewall Jackson Confederate Veterans Camp exchanged tales with many other veterans of both North and South. Politicians delivered patriotic speeches; families saw balloon ascensions, attended farm and garden shows and ball games as well as contests in bulldogging and bronco busting.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Civil War Veterans Reunion Historical Marker Location Map, Canyon, Texas

 
   
Related Themes: Texas C.S.A., Texas Confederate States of America, Confederacy
 
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