Historical Marker
Civil War Veterans Reunion
Historical marker location:
19th St. and 12th Ave., Canyon, Texas
( Located in Conner Park (19th Street and 12th Avenue), Canyon.)
Marker installed: 1970
Celebrated annually in Canyon 1900-1910, these reunions were a focal point of social life. Each summer several thousand people arrived by horseback, train, buckboard, and covered wagon. Here they pitched tents and built fires to cook meals. Members of the "Stonewall Jackson" Confederate Veterans Camp exchanged tales with many other veterans of both North and South. Politicians delivered patriotic speeches; families saw balloon ascensions, attended farm and garden shows and ball games as well as contests in bulldogging and bronco busting.