Details for New Boston
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5037009496
Data
| Marker Number | 9496 |
| Atlas Number | 5037009496 |
| Marker Title | New Boston |
| Index Entry | New Boston |
| Address | |
| City | New Boston |
| County | Bowie |
| UTM Zone | 15 |
| UTM Easting | 368263 |
| UTM Northing | 3703169 |
| Subject Codes | cities and towns |
| Marker Year | 1971 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | US 82 in center of New Boston in front of city parking lot |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | Established as shipping point when Texas & Pacific Railroad was built across Bowie County in 1870s, drawing business from original town of Boston (4 mi. S). New Boston townsite was platted in 1876; its post office opened Jan. 26, 1877, with L. C. DeMorse as postmaster. Baptists organized church here in 1880; Methodists, 1883; Church of Christ, 1943. The first building designed as a school was erected in 1886. New Boston men who have served in the Texas Legislature: Blair McGee (1889); Norman L. Dalby (1909-1910); R. M. Hubbard (1929, 1931), and Joseph White, Jr. (1939). (1971) Incise on back: Marker Sponsors: Veterans of World War I, Bowie County Barracks #1657, Their Auxiliary, and The Bowie County Historical Survey Committee |