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El Sal del Rey

  Texas Historical Markers
Linn vicinity, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 26° 31' 13.06301000016", -98° 4' 32.69809999992"
 
    Texas State
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    (The salt of the King) Directly to the north. Upon Spanish discovery, 1746, claimed for King, under old law that salt was money. People of wide area got salt here. 1863-64 works aided Texas in the Civil War. Later disputes over El Sal del Rey established Texas laws for private ownership of minerals. (1964)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

El Sal del Rey Historical Marker Location Map, Linn vicinity, Texas

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