Historical Marker
Old Watering Trough
Historical marker location:
US 84, between Commerce & Main, Sudan, Texas
( on US 84 between Commerce & Main Streets-Sudan; marker faces dirt access road)
Marker installed: 1966
One of Sudan's oldest structures. Built 1916, when Santa Fe Railway terminus here shipped out cattle of early ranches.
Here ranchers watered herds and horses, traded, told yarns, hired hands.
Trough also served mule teams, after the farming era began in the 1920's.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1966.