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Ozona's First Water Well

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901 Avenue D, Ozona, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 30° 42' 44.86502999988", -101° 11' 52.9784499984"
 
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     Focus for civic life in early Ozona. City founder E. M. Powell provided the water well equipped with 18-foot windmill, a water trough, and a small cypress tank. At first meeting of Crockett County Commissioners Court, July 22, 1891, under a liveoak near the well, the sheriff was instructed to operate the city water works. At the time, tents housed most homes and stores, and water was hauled from city well--often by children using toy wagons. In a few years homes had private wells and windmills. A modern system piped water throughout the city in the early 1900s.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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