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Commissioners accept donated Alamo plaque for county courthouse, appoint fundraising committee
Summary
The court accepted a donated bronze plaque reproducing William Barrett Travis’s Alamo letter, paid for by a private donor, and named a local committee — chaired by Dr. Neil Coates with Glenn Pugh as vice chair — to raise private funds for a display cradle and possible pay‑it‑forward donations to other counties.
Tarrant County Commissioners Court accepted a donated Alamo bronze plaque March 11 and appointed a committee to plan its display and related fundraising.
Dr. Reeves of the Alamo Letters Society told the court a private donor covered the $4,500 cost to produce the plaque for Taylor County and…
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