Chisholm Trail, Kimball Crossing

Kimball, one of the first towns in Bosque County, was established on this site in the early 1850's. One of the westward wagon routes forded the river at this crossing until a ferry was built in 1865.

The famous Chisholm Trail made its major crossing of the Brazos River here during the 1870's. Tens of thousands of Texas longhorn cattle forded the river and were driven on to northern markets.

Building of barbed wire fences and railroads during the 1880's caused abandonment of the Chisholm Trail. Kimball, with no railroad and loss of the cattle trail, became a ghost town by the middle 1900's. Erected by Boy Scouts of America Troop 326 Longhorn Council, Ft. Worth, Texas, 16 June 1963 A.D.