Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba
N 30° 52.200 W 099° 35.941
14R E 442736 N 3415348
The state historic marker for the Pegleg crossing in San Saba is located at a roadside pullout on State Highway 29.
Waymark Code: WMTVBF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/09/2017
Views: 10
This historic marker is located at a roadside pullout along State Highway 29 about 10 miles southeast of Menard. The marker is secured by trees and the text-side faces away from the road, so the marker is easily missed.
Marker Number: 3976
Marker Text:
About 1 mi. NE
An hourglass-shaped pass through the hills where McDougal Creek joins San Saba River. For years a favored Indian campground, it entered written history, 1732, as site of Spanish-Apache battle.
Saw passage of adventurers, mustang hunters, Indian fighters, German settlers, gold-seekers.
Probably named by landowner Wilhelm Harlen for one-legged land commissioner T.W. Ward.
Crossing became station on stage line. Gained notoriety for many hold-ups that occurred at "Robbers' Roost" (1 mile west). Pegleg served in later era as crossing on Great Western Cattle Trail. (1970)
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