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Baby Head or Babyhead is a ghost town in Llano County, Texas, United States. [1] As of 1990, there was still a population of 20. [2] The townsite and associated Baby Head Cemetery lie along Texas State Highway 16, approximately nine miles north of Llano. Babyhead Mountain lies about 4000 feet to the west and rises roughly 250 feet above the ...
According to The Handbook of Texas, c. 1952, Babyhead Mountain [5] [6] was named about 1850. Others put the date at about 1873, including John E. Conner , who was born in 1883 and grew up in the area hearing the stories from those who had been there. [ 7 ]
National Register of Historic Places listings in Llano County, Texas; Southern Hotel (Llano, Texas) State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River; Sunrise Beach Village, Texas; Tow, Texas; Valley Spring, Texas; User:Nyttend/County templates/TX/2; User:Patapsco913/sandbox; File talk:Map of Texas highlighting Llano County.svg; Template ...
Location of Llano County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Llano County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Llano County, Texas. There are three districts and four individual properties listed on the ...
Named after the saddle-like appearance provided by twin peaks, Packsaddle Mountain is a landmark hill that stands five miles southwest of Kingsland, Texas in eastern Llano County on State Highway 71 and is of interest to both historians and geologists. In 1873 it was the site of the Packsaddle Mountain Fight, the last major Native American ...
Llano County (/ ˈ l æ n oʊ /) is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census , its population was 21,243. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Llano , [ 2 ] and the county is named for the Llano River .
Yellow House Canyon is about 32 km (20 mi) long, heading in Lubbock, Texas, at the junction of Blackwater Draw and Yellow House Draw, and trending generally southeastward to the edge of the Llano Estacado about 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Slaton, Texas; it forms one of three major canyons along the east side of the Llano Estacado and carries the waters of the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos ...
The Llano Uplift is a geologically ancient, low geologic dome that is about 90 miles (140 km) in diameter and located mostly in Llano, Mason, San Saba, Gillespie, and Blanco counties, Texas. It consists of an island-like exposure of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks surrounded by outcrops of Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary strata .