Site of the Home of Oliver Loving in 1855

Loving came to this country as a storekeeper before he was a trail driver. He left Kentucky for Texas in 1843, took land in the Peters colony and hauled freight to feed a growing family. By 1855 he was running a country store near Keechi Creek and ranching. The first Palo Pinto County tax roll, in 1857, lists him with 1,000 acres. He and his wife Susan Morgan had nine children, four of them born in Texas. The drives that made his name came after the store.

What the plaque says

Site of the Home of Oliver Loving in 1855 Site of the Home in 1855 of Oliver Loving (1813 - - 1867) First trail driver of Texas cattle - Loving Valley and a county in Texas bear his name - Erected by the State of Texas - 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Mineral Wells State Park and Trailway — 8.8 mi
  A Cross Timbers park on the old Camp Wolters grounds, built around a 1922 water-supply lake for a spa town, with Penitentiary Hollow's rock climbing and a 20-mile trailway.
• Chandor Gardens — 20 mi
  A portrait painter's English-and-Chinese garden rooms, blasted and planted from a bare 3.5-acre hillside in Weatherford beginning in 1936, abandoned after 1978 and reopened by the city in 2002.
• Fort Richardson State Park and Historic Site — 20 mi
  The northernmost post of the Texas frontier line, outside Jacksboro, where a stone hospital and six other buildings stand from 1867 and a later Guard unit became the Lost Battalion.

More markers nearby

• Whitt Seminary — 3.4 mi
• Whitt Cemetery — 3.6 mi
• Charles Goodnight — 5.3 mi
• Black Springs — 5.3 mi