Defunct Garage - Sheffield, TX
N 30° 41.428 W 101° 49.459
14R E 229453 N 3398704
In the hey day of the OST, Sheffield got enough automobile traffic from the OST to support 2 tourist courts, 5 gas stations, and a garage. Those days are long gone -- and so are these businesses. The garage is located on SH 290 at Ave F.
Waymark Code: WMTW1H
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/12/2017
Views: 3
During the heyday of the Old Spanish Trail, when the US 290 passed through Chef Field and was the only route between San Antonio and El Paso. Enough travelers came through tiny Sheffield to support several automotive-related businesses.
Sheffield saw the handwriting on the wall when the proposed I-10 route was published in the 1970s, in the town learned it was being bypassed to the north. The completion of the I-10 in 1987 took all the car traffic that formerly passed through Sheffield and routed it away from town, where the fat wallets of travelers zoomed by 80 miles an hour, with nothing to draw those folks into town to spend money.
If this waymarked old garage was still operating in 1987, it probably didn't operate for long.
The Old Spanish Trail supported businesses that provided good livings for people in Sheffield for a lot of years. The end of the OST and its by-passing by the I-10 insured economic decline and population loss for this remote community.
Submission Criteria:
Period Culture
Address of Waymark:
SH 290 at Sheffield
Sheffield, TX USA
Website with More Information: Not listed
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