Oak Point Underwater

ID: 1524 ~ Source: Howe, Martha Roane Lacy, interviewed by Lois E. Myers, June 16, 2009, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Martha Roane Lacy Howe tells about the trees of Oak Point that now lie beneath the lake's waters.

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By Nell Buice Barton & Amanda Sawyer
Two years after Texas became a republic in 1836, Israel Washington Speegle formed a wagon train in Tennessee with several of his brothers and his wife’s family members and moved to Texas. When Texas was admitted to the union in 1845, McLennan County…