Withers, M. A., House
a.k.a. Mark Withers Museum
W of Lockhart on Borchert Loop Rd., Lockhart, TXM.A. (Mark, "Merry Mark") Withers (b.23 September 1847, d. 9 June 1937) was instrumental in the expansion of the beef industry through much of the western US, encouraged early cattle markets and their related meat processing and transportation industries which ultimately terminated in northeastern markets. This activity not only opened new frontiers for settlement, but advanced the railroad industry, and colored social, political, and economic patterns. The process established the character of the westerner - a self-reliant individual who utilized independent initiative.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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