Dangerous ass Hwy from Eden to San Angelo. Be careful.

Also, if your heading towards Ballinger there’s one lane road construction from Miles all the way to Ballinger. You’ll cross the CO River if your headed that way.
If your headed through PaintRock, the Petroglyphs are worth seeing.
Ft. Concho is a neat old nicely restored pre- Civil War Fort on the TX Fort Trail in San Angelo
And there’s a cool old bookstore on Ft Chadbourne Street that specializes in Texana. Kinda reminds you of Larry McMurtry’s bookstore in Archer City. Being the book hound you are, it’ll definitely be worth your time. And theTHE two places to eat in San Angelo are Zetner’s Daughter for a chicken fried and the Western Sky Steakhouse For Steak.

And Ft Chadbourne is north of it on 277. A friend of mine owns it. He has probably the best collection of Sharps Rifles and the 2nd best collection of Winchester rifles in all of TX. And one of the best arrowhead collections in TX too. His great great great grandfather was Commander and stationed at that Fort before the Civil War and came back and bought it afterwards. He or his wife usually help give the tours. They had over 100 sections of land at one time. I think it’s down to 30 or 40 nowadays. Definitely the best Fort on the TX Fort Trails, IMO.
These were the line of Forts built pre Civil War to protect the settlers from the Comanche. But I’m sure you already new that! 😁

FOX Business Channel’s “Strange Inheritance” did a show on it.

https://youtu.be/DzZc2MijSUc

http://fortchadbourne.org/visitor-center.html




Last edited by chlinstructor; 06/27/19.
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