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Morris Ranch, Texas

Morris Ranch is a ghost town, located southwest of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The area was begun as a thoroughbred horse ranch by New Yorker Francis Morris in 1856, and the town grew up around it. In 1962, the school district was merged with Fredericksburg Independent School District, and the Morris Ranch school ceased operations. The Morris Ranch school was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1980, Marker number 10086.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5171010086&site_name=Morris+Ranch+Schoolhouse&class=5000 )〕 The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas, in March 29, 1983, NRHP Reference #:83003142.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/TX/Gillespie/state.html#Morris%20Ranch%20Schoolhouse )
==Thoroughbred ranch==
In 1856, New York broker Francis Morris bought of land in Gillespie and Kerr counties for twenty-five cents an acre. He eventually sold off all but , and hired his nephew Charles Morris to manage the acreage for horse breeding. Charles was ranch manager until 1910.
Francis Morris died in 1886. The land was inherited by his son John A. Morris, who spent $500,000 on capital improvements and converted the property into a community dedicated to the business of raising thoroughbred horses. The improvements included a hotel for entertaining influential and important individuals, a general store and post office, a school, a cotton gin, and a flour mill. Approximately 200 mares and ten stallions were at the ranch, with yearling colts either being sold or boarded at the Morris stables in Winchester Park, Maryland. Adjacent to the ranch was a racetrack and living quarters for the jockeys, where Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer Max Hirsch got his start.
Anti-gambling legislation passed in New Jersey and New York around the turn of the 20th Century caused the horse racing industry to go into decline, and Morris Ranch along with it. The ranch was inherited by John's sons Alfred and David Morris and eventually by Alfred's son Captain John A. Morris.

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