| Marker Number |
8029 |
| Atlas Number |
5315008029 |
| Marker Title |
Early Site of Bell Factory |
| Index Entry |
Bell Factory |
| Address |
|
| City |
Jefferson |
| County |
Marion |
| UTM Zone |
15 |
| UTM Easting |
368299 |
| UTM Northing |
3627561 |
| Subject Codes |
manufacturing |
| Marker Year |
1936 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
SH 49 and FM 729, 4 mi. from Jefferson |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
1936 Centennial Marker |
| Marker Text |
From a log blacksmith shop in 1854 grew a bell foundry owned by G. A. Kelly which manufactured cowbells widely used by pioneer ox-team freighters. Later the Kelly plow, one of the first modern plows made in Texas, was manufactured here. |
