Odessa Land & Townsite Company

The Texas & Pacific Railroad transferred 640 acres of its land grants here in 1886 to John Hoge of Zanesville, Ohio. He formed the Odessa land & townsite company to promote sale of town lots. Prime house lots sold for $150 and business lots for $200. Literature was distributed in eastern states citing rich soil, pure water, healthful climate, and railroad sponsored excursion trains with free sleeping cars for prospective Byers form 1886 to 1889. A small frame building on this site, razed in 1911, served as the land office, and later as a school and church.

Odessa Land & Townsite Company is a historical marker in Odessa, Ector County, dedicated in 1967. It is one of 37 historical markers documented in Ector County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 39 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.8481, -102.3680 near Odessa. The nearest cataloged historic site is Odessa Telephone Exchange (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Livery Stable & Wagon Yard, Ector County Courthouse, and Ector County Land Rush.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5135003667. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.