Early Site of Bell Factory

Historical marker location:

Jefferson, Texas

( SH 49 and FM 729, 4 mi. from Jefferson)

Marker installed: 1936

From a log blacksmith shop in 1854 grew a bell foundry owned by G. A. Kelly which manufactured cowbells widely used by pioneer ox-team freighters. Later the Kelly plow, one of the first modern plows made in Texas, was manufactured here.