Being one of the larger operating ranches of the time, it was visited by German Geologist Ferdinand von Roemer in 1846, who described the home and the Flores Falls in his works, Die Kreidebildungen von Texas and ihre organischen Einschlüsse (1852).
The epithet honors German geologist Ferdinand von Roemer, who lived in Texas from 1845 to 1847 and became known as the "father of Texas geology".
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