Georgia:  Chattooga County:  Newspapers:  Fosters of Chattooga Co. buy 
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From the San Angelo Standard-Times (Texas), Friday, April 24, 1942

KNICKERBOCKER PRACTICALLY CHANGES HANDS AS FOSTER FAMILY SECURES 300 TOWN 
LOTS

One West Texas community – Knickerbocker – practically changed hands 
yesterday.

Through papers filed in the office of County Clerk Emmett Keating, the 
Knickerbocker Ranch Co. and the Tweedy family transferred deeds and 
mineral rights on more than 300 lots in Knickerbocker to E. E. Foster, 
Tom Green County Commissioner, Arthur R. Foster and Ernest Eugene Foster, 
Jr.

Although the exact amount of the consideration was not reported, stamps 
on the documents would indicate that approximately $2,000 was involved.

Mrs. Eva Browne (Jose L.) Tweedy, as vice president of the Knickerbocker 
Ranch Co. and independent executrix of the estate of the late Joseph Lord 
Tweedy acted for the ranch company.  The mineral rights transfer was 
signed by Andrew Mellick Tweedy of Union County, New Jersey, acting for 
himself and as trustee of the estate of Elizabeth Tweedy Flowers of Santa 
Monica, Calif., and as attorney-in-fact for Lawrence Leslie Tweedy of 
London, England, and Mrs. Jose L. Tweedy.

Knickerbocker first settled in the seventies was headquarters for 
Knickerbocker Ranch, founded in 1877 by the late Joseph Tweedy, J. Barlow 
Reynolds, E. Morgan Grinnell and Lawrence Grinnell of New York.

It once boasted two hotels and two saloons, but they passed out of 
existence many years ago.