In hostile Indian years of 1866-71, route of great cattle drives from Texas to US forts in Colorado and New Mexico. Col. Charles Goodnight, trailblazer, drove thousands of cattle to water here. Site later became Childress.(1886) Cattle watering hole is now lake in Fair Park 1964

Marker is on Ave I NW, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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