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Black plaque № 16639

Sudan, TX, United States

Old Watering Trough. 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 Texa

s Historic Landmark, 1966 #3832

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