Black plaque № 27740

Weatherford, TX, United States

Franco-Texan Land Company Building. In the late 19th Century, this building was a centre for political and economic life for the town of Weatherford and for Parker County. It was built around 1870. James Robertson Couts and John A. Fain established the first bank west of Dallas in this building, aft

er Couts made a fortune selling cattle out west. Couts operated the bank with several partners, including Henry Warren, until 1877. Warren, a freighting contractor and thoroughbred stockbreeder, had p

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