Bud Matthews Switch of the Texas Central Railway
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member txoilgas
N 32° 44.161 W 099° 31.046
14S E 451519 N 3622140
Located at a cattle ranch cattle gathering point still in use today.
Waymark Code: WMAQR6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/14/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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Marker Number: 557

Marker Text:
In 1900 the Texas Central Railway extended a line northwest from Albany across this portion of Rose Ella (Matthews) Conrad's cattle ranch. Ella and her brother John A. "Bud" Matthews, for whom this site is named, promptly constructed cattle pens and a loading chute at this location. Surrounding ranchers soon were shipping their cattle from this switch to markets in Fort Worth. As many as 105,000 head of cattle were shipped annually until the railroad ceased operations in 1967. Since that year local ranchers have continued to load cattle onto trucks from this site. (1992) Marker is the property of the State of Texas
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