Mothers Park

The Mothers' Club was one of several women's institutions that shaped Hereford. Another women's group, the Monday Afternoon Club, organized the town's first library in 1910; it was turned over to the city in 1919 and became the county library in 1930. Later the town drew national notice for women of the West: the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center was founded in Hereford, with its magazine Sidesaddle, before moving to Fort Worth in 1994, and since 1975 Hereford has held the nation's largest all-girl rodeo each August.

What the plaque says

Mothers Park Established by the Mothers' Club, founded in 1909. Site, a 1910 gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Thomas, was improved with walks and shade trees. In 1934 the sponsor group changed its name to "The Pioneer Study Club." With the help of the City of Hereford, it continuously maintains the park. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Deaf Smith County Historical Museum — 0.3 mi
  Hereford's county museum in an early Catholic school: the Windmill City's pioneers, a half-dugout and caboose outside, and work by the Italian prisoners held south of town in the war.
• Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 18 mi
  A 1938 Depression-era lake on Tierra Blanca Creek that has gone dry, now 7,664 acres of shortgrass, cottonwood canyon and a prairie dog town on the High Plains south of Umbarger.

More markers nearby

• Two-Wheel Fire Hose Reel — 0.3 mi
• The Thompson House — 0.3 mi
• Deaf Smith County — 0.4 mi
• Town Without a Toothache — 0.5 mi