| Marker Number |
481 |
| Atlas Number |
5035000481 |
| Marker Title |
Boyhood Home of John A. Lomax |
| Index Entry |
Lomax, John A., Boyhood Home of |
| Address |
|
| City |
Meridian |
| County |
Bosque |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
625566 |
| UTM Northing |
3535517 |
| Subject Codes |
music; writers and poets |
| Marker Year |
1970 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
from Meridian, take SH 144 north about 1 mile to marker in picnic area. |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
Only a log kitchen now marks the homesite of John Lomax, one of the foremost collectors of American folksongs. Here, on part of the Chisholm Trail, young Lomax heard cowboys crooning and yodeling to restless herds; Negro servants taught him jig tunes, chants, work songs, and calls; and on winter nights his family sang songs and swapped stories around a blazing fire. Lomax began to write down this music while still a boy; and when he left Bosque County at age 20, he carried with him a roll of cowboy ballads -- the nucleus of his lifelong work. (1970) |
