My wife and I have decided to try to find all the little and not so little ghost towns in Texas and try to get an idea of what it must have been like to live in that era. Callahan city is located about 9 miles south east of Baird. It was established in 1858. It grew into a small town with two stores and a post office. It must have had a church, the cemetery is nearby. There isn't much history to be found about this little town. It was the county seat for a little while. It's been told that it was close the the WESTERN CATTLE TRAIL to DODGE CITY and a good watering hole. There is no sign of a town being there now except the cemetery.
This photograph is looking west towards BELLE PLAIN, another ghost town that I will visit later. The final deathblow came when the railroad bypassed the city in summer 1878.
The highlighted area of the photograph is where CALLAHAN CITY originally stood.
