Schreiner Park - Junction, TX
N 30° 29.356 W 099° 45.630
14R E 427012 N 3373248
Deeded to the City of Junction in 1916, beautiful Schreiner Park along the South Llano River would have been a great place for OST travelers to eat a picnic and cool off on a hot day.
Waymark Code: WMTV16
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2017
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Schreiner Park, located along the banks of the South Llano River, was dated from the Schreiner family to the City of Junction in 1916 for use forever after as a community park.
In nearly years of the Old Spanish Trail, it would have been a well-known, heavily used, and much looked forward to respite from the hot, dry, dusty journeys the travelers were making along this early Auto Route.
In 2016 it is still an outstanding community amenity, with historic structures, picnic tables, inviting cool river waters, and tall shade trees. It truly is a community gem -- then and now.
Like almost all the small Texas towns along the Old Spanish Trail, that part of the OST as it passes through Junction is named "Main Street."
As of 1969, the entire route of the former OST through Junction (including Main Street) was redesignated State Loop 481 to serve as a business route for the reroute of the US 290 north of town (preparing for the day to come where the US 290 would become the I-10).
Wikipedia proves that Texas SL 481 was formerly co-signed as US 83 and US 290. The US 83 came in from the south and joined US 290 east of Junction, where the two roads headed west through town. North of town, US 83 diverged from US 290, and continued north to the Oklahoma border.
US 290 entered Junction from the east, joined with US 83 and left US 83 to continue west to El Paso. Therefore, SL 481 is clearly the former route of the Old Spanish Trail. (
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