Fort Stockton Historical
Tours
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Signs have been erected to guide visitors
around town to sixteen points of interest.
The tour begins at Paisano Pete at the
intersection of Dickinson (Business I-10)
and Main Street. Brochures with a map of
the route are available from the Chamber
of Commerce, Annie
Riggs Museum, Historic
Fort Stockton, and Grey Mule Saloon.
The tour signs are blue and white with
a black arrow. Following the arrows, the
visitor travels through the National Register
Historic District and will see general
mercantile stores, a saloon, two churches,
even a house ordered from the Montgomery
Ward Catalog. Not all of the buildings
on the tour are open to the public. Several
of the buildings now serve alternative
uses either as offices or homes. The tour
is just under two miles long.
Fort Stockton is a designated Main Street
City and numerous downtown businesses take
pride in refurbishing the store fronts
along the historical tour. The Annie
Riggs Museum, housed in a turn-ofthe-century
adobe hotel, provides insight into the
region's history and development with exhibits
in thirteen areas.
The frontier army post includes three
remaining quarters on Officers'
Row on the grounds of Historic
Fort Stockton. |
The tour travels past the 1912 Pecos County
Courthouse (Fort Stockton is the county
seat), the 1883 Jail, the oldest remaining
school in town, the "Oldest House" and
the Grey Mule Saloon. Also on the tour
is one of the nine springs in the Comanche
springs system, which once had a flow of
65 million gallons of water a day.
Yes! Fort Stockton has a fort. The frontier
army post, active from 1867-1886, includes
three remaining Officers' Quarters, the
Guardhouse, and Parade Grounds. Two Enlisted
Men's Barracks and their Kitchens have
been reconstructed, one of which houses
the Fort Museum.
The tour ends at the Fort Cemetery. All
the headstones are for civilians, as the
military personnel and dependents were
exhumed and moved to the National Cemetery
in San Antonio in 1888. Sheriff A.J. Royal's
tombstone bears the inscription "assassinated",
a testament to a violent period in our
history.
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here for a list of what you'll see on
the Historic Tour!
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Visitor
Information: |
Fort
Stockton CVB
P.O. Box 1000
Fort Stockton, Texas 79735
1-877-336-8525
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here for E-mail |
Chamber
of Commerce Visitor Center
1000 Railroad Ave.
Fort Stockton, Texas 79735
1-800-336-2166
www.fortstockton.org |
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