The Annual Railhead Festival in downtown Baird will be held Saturday May 20th. The annual event is held to recognize the establishment of the City of Baird by the Texas & Pacific Railway.
The T&P Railway arrived here in 1880, platting a town near the work camp of Matthew Baird, surveyor, engineer who the town was named for. In 1881, the T&P built a roundhouse and immigrant house and moved a depot building to this new railroad division point. The town of Baird prospered and became county seat in 1883.
The Depot was closed in 1977 and T& P donated it to the City of Baird where it is now operated as the visitor center and a transportation museum.
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