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Seeking a rail line to speed marketing of their livestock, residents of this area in 1909 asked the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railroad, a branch of the Frisco System, to extend track from Brady to Menardville. Ranchers donated right of way, while townspeople erected the depot and shortened the town's name to Menard. Celebrations marked the arrival of the first train on February 10, 1911, and completion of the mission revival station on July 4, 1911. The Santa Fe system later acquired the line. After rail service ended in 1972, the building became a historical museum.
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Menard, Texas · United States
