Historical Marker
Silver Cliff Ranch
Historical marker location:
FM 380, Paint Rock vicinity, Texas
( from Paint Rock, take FM 380 west 10 miles (just past intersection w/ FM 381) [Private - limited access])
Marker installed: 1966
Founded 1882 on 46,000 acres by John A. Loomis, of Syracuse, New York, and his brother-in-law, Welton B. Ostrander. Rock quarried on the ranch was used in 1883 by German stonemasons to build Pennsylvania Dutch-style barn and house.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1966.
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