Fort Stockton Historical Tours

Directional Signs have been erected to guide visitors around town to sixteen points of interest.

The tour begins at Paisano Pete at the intersection of Dickinson (Business I-10) and Main Street. Brochures with a map of the route are available from the Chamber of Commerce, Annie Riggs Museum, Historic Fort Stockton, and Grey Mule Saloon.

The tour signs are blue and white with a black arrow. Following the arrows, the visitor travels through the National Register Historic District and will see general mercantile stores, a saloon, two churches, even a house ordered from the Montgomery Ward Catalog. Not all of the buildings on the tour are open to the public. Several of the buildings now serve alternative uses either as offices or homes. The tour is just under two miles long.

Fort Stockton is a designated Main Street City and numerous downtown businesses take pride in refurbishing the store fronts along the historical tour. The Annie Riggs Museum, housed in a turn-ofthe-century adobe hotel, provides insight into the region's history and development with exhibits in thirteen areas.

The frontier army post includes three remaining quarters on Officers' Row on the grounds of Historic Fort Stockton.

The tour travels past the 1912 Pecos County Courthouse (Fort Stockton is the county seat), the 1883 Jail, the oldest remaining school in town, the "Oldest House" and the Grey Mule Saloon. Also on the tour is one of the nine springs in the Comanche springs system, which once had a flow of 65 million gallons of water a day.

Yes! Fort Stockton has a fort. The frontier army post, active from 1867-1886, includes three remaining Officers' Quarters, the Guardhouse, and Parade Grounds. Two Enlisted Men's Barracks and their Kitchens have been reconstructed, one of which houses the Fort Museum.

The tour ends at the Fort Cemetery. All the headstones are for civilians, as the military personnel and dependents were exhumed and moved to the National Cemetery in San Antonio in 1888. Sheriff A.J. Royal's tombstone bears the inscription "assassinated", a testament to a violent period in our history.

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