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A sandstone image of a human head, carved by prehistoric men, was found near here in 1929 by workmen of Texas Clay Products Company. It was dug from a gravel pit now under Cedar Creek Lake. The carving weighed 98 pounds, measured 16 by 14 inches, and had eyes 2.5 inches wide. The first stone was found at a depth of 16.5 feet. Two similar images were unearthed in the same area in 1935 and 1939. Archaeologists date the Malakoff "Men" as many thousands of years old. Found near the images were fossil remains of extinct horse, elephant, and camel species. The images are now in the Texas Memorial Museum.
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