Stanton (Texas)

Martin County

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Stanton is the district capital of Martin County and is located in the southeastern corner of Texas at an altitude of 812 meters. On the map you will find Stanton northeast of Odessa between Midland and Big Spring at Interstate 20 Other facts:

History

Stanton, called at its inception in 1881 Grelton that time was just a dot on the map near the railway line of the Texas and Pacific Railroad. German Catholics from Kansas and Arkansas were the first settlers. They named the town in 1885 in Marienfeld order. However, several droughts smashed the agricultural dreams of the Germans, so that they were forced to look for a better country - they found it then in Louisiana.

As the German population had moved away almost entirely, the city was renamed again in 1890. School children, with the help of teachers, examined from the name Stanton, after Lincoln's Secretary of War and former Supreme Court Justice Edwin McMaster Stanton.

By 1950, influenced animal husbandry and agriculture, mainly the cultivation of cotton, the economic picture of Stanton. In 1951, an oil field was discovered in the region and the dozing Stanton benefited from the erupting oil boom. Hospitals, schools and infrastructure could be modernized. Nonetheless presented after 96 years, the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1977, a service to Stanton. The connection to the outside world now make up her two bus lines and the regional airport.