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Historical marker location:

Old Hwy 377, Junction, Texas

( from Junction, take US 377 about 5 miles to turnoff to state park (Hwy. 73) - take right on deadend road, go .5 mi. to home (private property))

Marker installed: 1965

First two-story house in county. Built 1877-1879 on the caliche soil, with no foundation, by Civil War veteran B.F. Pepper, who led a wagon train of settlers to Texas from Missouri.

Since 1905 in family of Dr. R.H.P. Wright. The girlhood home of Fay Wright, 1941-1947, First Lady of Texas, as wife of Governor Coke Stevenson.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965.

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