Fire Hall Museum

Crowell was organized in 1891 on land owned by George T. Crowell, and when Foard County was organized the next year it became the county seat. Mail came overland from Vernon until 1908, when the first train of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway arrived and the town incorporated. A boom followed, the population reached 1,500 by 1925, and oil found in the county in 1927 carried Crowell reasonably well through the Depression.

The town built its firehouse on North Main Street in 1922. In April 1942 a tornado struck the town, killing ten people, injuring 125 and leaving 1,500 homeless; about 90 percent of the homes and business buildings were destroyed. The Red Cross, the WPA and the Civilian Conservation Corps came in during the emergency, and the town was rebuilt. By 1950 its population had climbed to 1,922.

The old fire hall survived to become the town's museum, with artifacts of local history and a pioneer schoolroom set up as it was. It makes a short stop on TX-6 between Copper Breaks State Park, about eight miles north, and the Pease River country to the south and east.