P.P. Ackley and the Texas Chisholm Trail

Illinois native Peter Preston Ackley (1858-1940) moved to Texas as a boy. He went on several trail drives in 1870s and 1880s, bringing from cattle Texas, Nebraska and Canada to Kansas railheads. Starting in the 1920s, Ackley worked to have the Chisholm Trail recognized as a National Highway. In the 1930s he formed the Texas Longhorn Chisholm Trail Association and placed dozens of metal and granite markers along historic cattle trails in several states, Canada and Mexico. Ackley wintered in Donna and placed a trail marker here; a sign outside his house read "End of the Chisholm Trail." His efforts helped to document the era of the cattle drives in the American West.

P.P. Ackley and the Texas Chisholm Trail is a historical marker in Donna, Hidalgo County, dedicated in 2009. It is one of 138 historical markers documented in Hidalgo County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 236 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 26.1705, -98.0551 near Donna. The nearest cataloged historic site is Donna Hooks Fletcher Museum (museum), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Donna News, Donna, and American Legion Hall.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5507015868. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.