Fort Stockton -- Fort Stockton TX - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

The waymark coordinates are for the Pecos County Courthouse, which had a MUCH different look in 1940 than it does in 2016.

From Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State:

"The population of FORT STOCKTON, 210 m. (3,052 alt., 2,695 pop.), is about half Mexican. Adobe houses fringe the town, which spreads out from its limestone and red stucco courthouse. Fort Stockton is a retail center and livestock shipping point. It grew up around a military post established in 1859 near Comanche Springs, a watering place for Indians on forays into Mexico. Past the spring ran the Camino Real, the California Trail of 1849-50, and the San Antonio- San Diego Stage Line route. Today the water from this great spring, which flows more than 30 million gallons daily, irrigates 6,500 acres north of the town.

Pecos County, of which Fort Stockton is the county seat, has almost 3,000,000 acres in ranches. On irrigated lands, melons, fruits and vegetables are raised.

This region offers fine hunting in season, with deer, mountain lions, coyotes, bears, raccoons, opossums and civet cats plentiful.

At Fort Stockton is JAMES ROONEY PARK, in the area surrounding Comanche and Government Springs. Here are the RUINS OF OLD FORT STOCKTON, including the stone guard-house and three units of officers' [page 642] quarters; the latter, just outside the park area, are used as private residences. These buildings were constructed of adobe bricks and huge blocks of hewn limestone.

In Fort Stockton are junctions with US 285 (see Tour 28) and US 67 (see Tour 18)."

Too bad Paisano Pete was 40 years in Fort Stockton's future -- it would have been fun to see what the WPA writers had to say about him!

Book: Texas Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 641-642 Year Originally Published: 1940

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