Ganado

Before the station, the place was a cluster of cabins called Mustang Settlement, after Mustang Creek. Its ranchers, among them John Menefee and Jim McFarland, drove their herds to New Orleans over the Old Spanish Trail or north toward Kansas City. McFarland moved his store into the new town, and after his death Thomas Babcock, the first postmaster, carried it on in a building later called the Old Texas House; Babcock also built the town's first house and first cotton gin. By 1909 Ganado had sixty businesses.

What the plaque says

Ganado Established in 1882 as a shipping point on New York, Texas & Mexican Railroad. Named Ganado (Spanish for "herd") by railroad official. Became a boomtown in 1891-92 when Scandinavian immigrants settled area. Today a farm, oil and shipping center. (1967)

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Little School of the 400 — 0.2 mi
• First United Methodist Church of Ganado — 0.5 mi
• Macaroni Station — 9.2 mi
• Early Jackson County — 9.2 mi