W.A. Pace Memorial Park - Salado, TX
Posted by: WalksfarTX
N 30° 56.700 W 097° 32.109
14R E 639931 N 3424425
A lovely tree-shaded community park beside picturesque Salado Creek.
There is access to the creek for tubing and wading (not deep enough to really swim).
Waymark Code: WMRZCW
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/27/2016
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Salado Website
This park was given to the people of Salado by John W. and Elizabeth Pace Hodges in honor of their parents, William Alexander Pace and Sarah Jane Hankins Pace, on August 16, 1936. Pace and his wife came to Texas from Virginia to farm. During the Civil War, Pace Park was a safe haven to Company G.
Salado Creek and Pace Park were the state's first designated natural landmark. Wagon wheel ruts can still be seen in the limestone creek bed just north of the park, leftover from when Main Street was part of the Chisholm Trail. Across the creek rests the famous Tablerock, where sweethearts carved their names in stone.