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RipFest
Eastland County Courthouse, 100 W Main St, Eastland, TX
Eastland built this festival around Old Rip, a horned lizard local legend says was sealed alive inside the courthouse cornerstone in 1897 and found still breathing when it was reopened in 1928. The lizard's embalmed body still lies in a small casket in the courthouse, and the town holds a parade, 5K run and car show on the first Saturday of October. The celebration grew out of a horned toad derby that began in 1949.
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