Colonel C. C. Slaughter

Slaughter's Dallas life ran through banks and the Baptist church. The Handbook of Texas says he helped organize City Bank in 1873, became vice president of City National Bank after its 1881 reorganization, and in 1884 helped found American National Bank, where he was vice president until his death. He paid two-thirds of the cost of First Baptist Church, served as president of the state Mission Board from 1897 to 1903, and backed the 1897 plan to retire the debt of seven Baptist schools under Baylor University. He also gave to the Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium, later Baylor Hospital.

What the plaque says

Colonel C. C. Slaughter Christopher Columbus Slaughter was the first native born cattle king of Texas. While living on the west Texas frontier he was a ranger, Confederate beef supplier, and trail driver. His ranching empire, including the Long S and Lazy S ranches, totaled over one million acres. In the early 1870s he moved to Dallas, where he founded, and was an officer in, three early banks. An initiator of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assn., he was also noted for his philanthropy to Baptist schools, churches, and hospitals, especially Baylor Hospital. (1988)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Museum of Art — 1.1 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 1.7 mi
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• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 2.1 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 2.5 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

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