Veal's Station

Veal's Station had other names first. The Handbook of Texas says William G. Veal opened a store in the early 1850s at a spot called Creamland or Cream Hill, and the county entry lists a Cream Level post office in the late 1850s, a place later known as Veal's Station. In 1857 Veal, John Lantz and G. W. Coleman built a large Masonic hall and school, with a bronze bell used to warn settlers of Native attacks. Mail stopped in 1868, resumed in 1878 and ended for good in 1906.

What the plaque says

Veal's Station Settled in 1852. Here was established in 1858 by William G. Veal (1831-1891), a leading spirit in all public improvements of the region, an outstanding school of Parker County which functioned more than a half-century. (1936)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chandor Gardens — 13 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 Worth Stockyards — 21 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 21 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 21 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• William and Elisabeth Woody Homestead — 1.0 mi
• City of Springtown — 3.9 mi
• Coho and Nancy Jane Smith Farmstead Site — 6.9 mi
• Ash Creek Cemetery — 7.8 mi