Argyle's Pioneer Trails

Argyle began the way so many North Texas towns did — with a rail line and a developer's plat. Peters Colony families had farmed this prairie since the 1850s, but it was 1881, when the railroad pushed through, that a Galveston promoter named James Morrill laid out a townsite and drew the neighboring settlements in. A fire leveled the business district in 1895, and the town simply rebuilt. This short drive threads together the cluster of markers that remember those frontier days: the founding town marker, the Methodist congregation that chartered in 1894, the Graham cemetery that predates Argyle itself, and Johns' Well — a camp-meeting and watering stop on the old trails, where families pitched tents around a brush arbor each summer. Today Argyle is horse country; the bones of the trail town are still easy to find.