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The Brooks House

  Texas Historical Markers
208 Vale St., Jefferson, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 45' 21.57914000016", -94° 20' 44.4272299998"
 
    Texas State
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     Built 1872 in Victorian style, with long galleries, bay window, 4 gables. Then a hotel, it became famous when guest Diamond Bessie Moore was killed west of town at a picnic in 1877. Fellow guest Abe Rothchild, cited for murder, was freed after sensational trial-- later subject of a drama.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

The Brooks House Historical Marker Location Map, Jefferson, Texas