OST Sign - Roosevelt, TX
N 30° 29.445 W 100° 03.453
14R E 398504 N 3373641
A handmade welded Old Spanish Trail sign stands along the historic OST route, and has been repurposed to advertise the Old Spanish Trail Apartments (that no longer exist) in downtown Roosevelt.
Waymark Code: WMTVHX
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/10/2017
Views: 3
The vestiges of the Old Spanish Trail in Texas are found on the various Main Streets that run through the center of little downtowns and on the frontage roads that parallel the modern I-10 highway. Many of the FM roads, State Loops, and State Highways that parallel, diverge from, and return to the I 10 as it makes its way from San Antonio to El Paso are what’s left of the old US 290, nationally known before 1926 as the Old Spanish Trail.
In Roosevelt, the OST was Allison Street. It passed through the heart of what once existed here: a store, a gas station or two, a motor court, and a couple of churches. Today this road through Roosevelt is State Loop 291, but you can still see the traces of the OST era.
Blasterz admittedly have no idea how old this handmade sign is. We DO know that someone repurposed it to advertise the Old Spanish Trail Apartments, and that these apartments are no longer standing in the ghost town of Roosevelt TX.
This sign stands at the bend of SL 291, where it exits what is left of Roosevelt and bends back towards the I-10.
State Loop 291 begins as a modern frontage road for the I-10 about a mile west of the point where FM 1674 heads north from running alongside the I-10 to reach Fort McKavett in Menard County. SL 291, and turns south to cross over the interstate on the route of the Old US 290, where SL 291 acts as a local access road for ranches on the south side of the interstate. After a few miles, SL 291 veers north to cross back over the I-10 at Allison Road, passing through Roosevelt, before heading back south to parallel, then cross the I-10 westbound, where SL 291 ends.
At this point, the eastbound access road for the I-10 is the old US 290/OST/Kimble County Road 227.
Submission Criteria:
Period Culture
Address of Waymark:
SL 291
Roosevelt, TX USA
Website with More Information: Not listed
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