Horsehead Crossing of The Pecos
Historical marker location:
Crane, Texas
( Located in the Crane TxDot scrapyard, US 385 1 mile N of Crane)
Marker installed: 1936
Marker size: 1936 Texas Centennial highway marker (pink granite)
Well known to frontiersmen and used by emigrants for several years preceding, this crossing was an important point on the southern overland mail (Butterfield route) which Linked St. Louis and San Francisco with a semi-weekly mail and stage service 1858-1861
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