Old Cloud Home

Historical marker location:

4310 E. FM 2169, Junction, Texas

( on FM 2169 5 miles east of Junction)

Marker installed: 1964

Cloud Place, 1879. Early Kimble County social center. Built for his family of 14 by W. J. Cloud, a veteran of Terry's Texas Rangers service during the Civil War.

Stone for 18-inch walls came from nearby mountain, lumber by ox-wagons from Austin. Has wide board floors.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964.

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Texas is home to the world's largest bat colony. The Bracken Bat Cave, near San Antonio, is home to millions of Mexican free-tailed bats.