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PALO BLANCO, TX (WILLACY COUNTY)

PALO BLANCO, TEXAS (Willacy County). Palo Blanco is a ranch settlement on the King Ranch in Willacy County. The name is Spanish for "white stick."

Ruth Musgrave Coole

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Ruth Musgrave Coole, "PALO BLANCO, TX (WILLACY COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvp07), accessed May 25, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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