Historical Marker
City Wagon Yards
Historical marker location:
Cleburne, Texas
( (across from City hall in parking lot) 300th block of West Henderson Street, Cleburne)
Marker installed: 1966
Were meeting places for early rural folks coming to town to buy, sell, trade, catch up on latest news. Here on this lot farmers, travelers for "two bits" got feed, water for teams; crude overnight accommodations. Wagon yards, outdated by better roads, cars, trucks, were forerunner of motels.
The discovery of oil in 1901 near Beaumont, Texas, sparked an oil boom that transformed the state's economy and led to the rise of the modern petroleum industry.