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Chisholm Trail, Kimball Crossing |
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Morgan vicinity,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
32° 7' 21.4968",
-97° 29' 47.9976"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Kimball, one of the first towns in Bosque County, was established at this site in the early 1850s. One of the westward wagon routes forded the river at this crossing until a ferry was built in 1865. The famous Chisholm Trail made its major crossing of the Brazos here. During the 1870s tens of thousands of Texas longhorn cattle forded the river and were driven to northern markets. Building of barbed wire fences and railroads in the 1880s caused abandonment of the Chisholm Trail. Kimball, with no railroad and loss of the cattle trail, became a ghost town by the middle 1900s. (1971)
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Chisholm Trail, Kimball Crossing Historical Marker Location Map, Morgan vicinity, Texas
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