U.S. 190 - Livingston, Polk County, TX
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jhuoni
N 30° 42.660 W 094° 55.450
15R E 315738 N 3399154
If you aren't looking for it, you will miss this Blue Star Memorial. That is, unless they trim back the trees.
Waymark Code: WMZ19G
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/24/2018
Views: 3
On the westbound side of US 190 (E. Church St.) about 2 miles east of US 59, o about half a mile from the Polk County Courthouse. It is hidden behind a tree and some brushes. There is a parking lot to pull into, what ever business used to be there is now gone
From Texas Escapes
BLUE STAR HIGHWAYS
by Bob Bowman
On May 4, 1976, the Texas Department of Highways approved a minute order in Austin granting the Texas Garden Clubs request to designate the memorial highways and agreed to erect Blue Star markers provided by the garden club ladies.
Between 1976 and 1988 the state approved orders designating eight stretches of roadway as Blue Star routes. They are:
U.S. 59 from Houston to Texarkana (designated 1976)
FM 3188 from State 94 to its end at Camp Olympia in Trinity County (1983)
U.S. 271 from Paris to Gladewater (1978)
U.S. 287 from the Anderson-Houston county line to the Johnson-Ellis county line (1976).
U.S. 385 from Big Bend National Park north to the Oklahoma state line north of Dalhart (1976).
State 155 from Palestine to Linden (1975)
U.S. 77 from the Oklahoma state line at Gainesville to Denton, then via other highways the New Mexico state line (1947 and 1953).
SS 496 at Avondale from its junction with U.S. 287 southeasterly via Saginaw, Fort Worth and Kennedale to its junction with U.S. 287 in Mansfield (1988)
A reader comment on this article states that there are 52 Blue Star Memorials in the State of Texas
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