5 Miles North on State Highway 385; service road along Schlemeyer Field.
Emigrant Marker
STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE

EMIGRANT TRAIL
GATEWAY TO THE WEST

ROAD OF STUBBORN SEEKERS OF 1849 CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELDS AND BETTER LIFE, BRINGING THE OLD, INFANT, THE YET UNBORN AND ALL WORLDLY GOODS, FAMILY WAGONS ENTERED TEXAS AT PRESTON, ON RED RIVER, TO GO SOUTHWEST VIA SPRINGS (INCLUDING SOME NOW IN MONAHANS SANDHILLS PARK) TO EMIGRANTS' CROSSING ON THE PECOS, THEN UPRIVER AND WEST THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS TO EL PASO. OLD WAGON PARTS BY THE TRAIL TELL OF SOME DISASTERS.

CAPT. R.B. MARCH IN 1849 AND CAPT. JOHN POPE IN 1854 MADE ARMY SURVEYS OF THE TRAIL. IT PASSED NEAR THIS SPOT.
(1964)


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Updated: 9/10/98