Lipscomb County

Historical marker location:

US 60, east side of Higgins, Higgins, Texas

( on US 60, east of Higgins near state line)

Marker installed: 1936

Formed from Young and Bexar territories:

Created, August 21, 1876

Organized June 6, 1887

Named in honor of Abner S. Lipscomb, 1789-1856. Secretary of State in President Lamar's cabinet member of the Constitutional Convention, 1845; associate justice of the First Supreme Court of Texas.

Lipscomb, the county seat.

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