Granado Mountain
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The 6,076-foot high peak traditionally known as Granado Mountain or La Granada was named for Trinidad Granado (1868-1958), a rancher whose ranch was at the base of the mountain. The original owner was Belgian-born founding settler Anton Diedrick Dutchover who acquired the tract and mountain from the State of Texas in 1876.
Dutchover served with Texas troops in the Mexican War and was employed at Fort Davis as a civilian stock herder. Trinidad Granado married Dutchover's third daughter, Dorothea (1872-1943), in 1890 and created the ranch on land he purchased in 1910, six years after Dutchover's death. In 1964, Governor John Connally, through a gubernatorial proclamation, renamed the mountain Barry Scobee Mountain.
(2015)
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More markers in Jeff Davis
Confederate President Jefferson Davis
(1808-1889) Friend of Texas.
First Rural School West of Pecos River
Built 1881 of adobe brick, by settlers P. H. Pruett, Cal Nations, James Dawson, Joe Dorsey.
Old Fort Davis C. S. A.
(Star and Wreath) Confederate supply point and frontier outpost on great military road from San Antonio to El Paso 1861-62.
San Antonio-El Paso Road
Westward expeditions opened trails from San Antonio to El Paso in the late 1840s.
Barry Scobee Mountain
(6300 ft. elev.) Camp grounds and lookout post (1850s-1880s) for military, mail coaches, freighters, travelers, emigrants.