Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site in Texas’s Lower Pecos region preserves desert canyons and one of the state’s most important concentrations of prehistoric rock art within the larger Seminole Canyon Archeological District. Human occupation here stretches back about 10,000 years, and Indigenous peoples created cave art between roughly 2,000 and 8,000 years ago, including paintings in Panther Cave dated to about 7,000 B.C. Fate Bell Shelter, excavated in 1932 and 1963, is among the park’s central archaeological sites, with paintings and artifacts regarded as some of North America’s oldest. Later associations include Gaspar Castaño de Sosa, Black Seminole Scouts, and the railroad’s arrival in 1882.