Ballinger Travel Guide

This statue of local cowboy Charles H. Noyes is located on the courthouse grounds and was created by internationally renowned sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, in 1919.

I spotted this mural describing some of the special events in town while walking through the downtown area.

There is an interesting series of Veterans Memorials dedicated to area veterans on the courthouse grounds.

This Time Capsule was buried on the grounds of the Ballinger City Hall in 1986 and will be opened in 2086. I bet it will be interesting to see what is inside there.

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This attractive Santa Fe Depot was built in 1911 to service the needs of the railroad into Ballinger. Today the building serves as the Ballinger City Hall.

The Carnegie Library in Ballinger was completed in 1911 and has been in continuous use since then. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Ballinger has a nice historic district with several buildings of historic and/or architectural interest. Photo 2 is the Farmers and Merchants State Bank Building constructed in 1909.

Ballinger is a town of about 4000 located in the Big Bend Section of West Texas at the intersection of Texas Highway 158, and US Highways 83 and 87. The town was originally established in 1886 and was named Hutchins City. Ballinger was named for Judge William Pitt Ballinger, a railroad lawyer, Texas statesman, and Mexican War Veteran. It is the county seat of Runnels County. Runnels County was organized in 1880 and was named after Hiram G. Runnels a governor of Mississippi and member of the Texas Legislature. The courthouse was built in 1889 by Roy E. Lane, using the Second Empire style of architecture.