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2,830 Acres in Melvin, TX - $6,226,000

Ford-Lightner Ranch

The Ford Ranch located 11 miles west of Brady, the geographical Heart of Texas, is one of the largest contiguous hunting and cattle ranches in Central Texas spanning three counties and covers more than 32,000 acres of live oak covered grasslands. This was famous Texas A&M 1895 graduate G. Rollie Whites home ranch who came crawling into McCulloch County at age 1 with his parents in a covered wagon in 1875, leased the Ford Ranch and later purchased it in 1902.

The 2,830 ac Ford-Lightner Ranch is the northwest corner of the famous Ford Ranch fronting on paved FM 2028 and County Road 128 to the north which was the old Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway grade and where the abandoned townsite of Lightner was located. The Lightner community was established about 1911 and had a post office till 1918. Lightner had a grocery store and a population of thirty-five in 1914. By 1936 the community ...

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