Historical Marker
Goodnight Trail
Historical marker location:
Commerce St. NW, Childress, Texas
( Fair Park, FM 401-Childress)
Marker installed: 1964
In hostile Indian years of 1866-71, route of great cattle drives from Texas to U.S. forts in Colorado and New Mexico.
Col. Charles Goodnight, trailblazer, drove thousands of cattle to water here. Site later (1886) became Childress.
Cattle watering hole is now lake in Fair Park.
(1964).