Old Anderson Place
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Built 1860 at edge of an old Indian campground, by James B. Anderson, one of town's founders and a school trustee in Salado. Community leaders, lawyers and doctors have lived here. Boarding here in 1883 while a student at Old Salado College was James E. Ferguson, 1915-1917 Governor of Texas--and husband of the first woman Governor.
Under panelling and cedar walls. Window glass is hand blown. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965
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