Historical Markers in Texas

Birome

History·Hill County·Texas

Founded 1910. One of five International and Great Northern Railway stations in southern Hill County. Important agricultural market. Named for Bickham and Jerome Cartwright, descendants of settler Matthew Cartwright, whose 1856 land patent included this townsite.

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31.8141, -96.9635

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