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Life in Martin County Texas 1850 - 1950
Carmelite Monastery Children in 1888

Carmelite Monastery Children in 1888

In 1888, forty school girls at the Carmelite Monastery in Stanton posed for a class photo . . .

The Carmelite Monastery was established in the early 1880s by a small group of Carmelite friars arriving from Kansas in order to create a German Catholic community in west Texas. Originally naming the town Marienfeld, the colony flourished for several years, but by 1888 drought and sandstorms caused many settlers to abandon Martin County. The Sisters of Mercy later occupied and then purchased the building during the 1890s, operating an academy that educated children in Stanton and as far away as New Mexico and Oklahoma until it closed in 1938.

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Life in Martin County 1850 - 1950

Life in Martin County 1850 - 1950Life in Martin County Texas 1850 - 1950

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Martin County Texas Unclaimed EstatesMartin County Unclaimed Estates

These Deceased Residents of Martin County left a total $9,004 in Unclaimed Money for their heirs. Know the Heirs? Please share or tag this to your Family and Friends from Stanton, Ackerly, Lenora and Tarzan Texas. . . . Check the list

 

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