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==History== From 1858 to 1861, [[Butterfield Overland Mail]] crossed the region.<ref name="Irion County">{{cite web |last1=Hunt |first1=William R |title=Irion County |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hci01 |work=Handbook of Texas Online |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=November 29, 2010 |author2=Leffler, John}}</ref> In 1876, John Arden brought the first flock of sheep from California, and Billy Childress established the Longhorn 7D Ranch.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lanning|first=James and Judy|title=Texas Cowboys: Memories of the Early Days |year=1995|publisher=TAMU Press|isbn=978-0-89096-658-7|page=57}}</ref> The Texas Legislature formed Irion County from [[Tom Green County, Texas|Tom Green]] County in 1889. [[Sherwood, Texas|Sherwood]] became the county seat.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sherwood, Texas|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Sherwood/Sherwood_Texas.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> Oil was discovered in Irion County in 1928.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Warner|first1=C A|title=Texas Oil & Gas Since 1543 |year=2007|publisher=Copano Bay Press|isbn=978-0-9767799-5-7|author2=Thompson, Ernest O|page=299}}</ref> In 1936, Mertzon became the county seat.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mertzon, Texas|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/WestTexasTowns/Mertzon-Texas.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> In 2020 Irion was the [[Same-sex marriage in Texas|slowest county]] to comply with the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court's]] [[Obergefell v. Hodges]] ruling, forbidding the ban on same-sex marriages. Currently, the [[Old Irion County Courthouse]] in Sherwood is the only property in the county listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].
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