Texas Historical Museum
The most interesting feature of the town is the Texas Historical Museum, located in the old Police house (not the Police Station) which was built in 1890 after the floods. It is open on Saturdays from 10.00-3.00. However a phone call to the numbers listed on the gate (53 1169 or 53 1410) will get the Museum opened promptly during the week.
In recent years the museum has expanded beyond the police house (which is organised so that local pieces of memorabilia have been placed in the appropriate rooms) and now includes a shop from Smithfield, the old Gaol (with special steel reinforcement between the timbers to ensure that even the most committed inmate could not escape), a special room for a telephone display and some interesting old farming equipment.
Just along the street from the Museum is a disused building with the Cobb & Co sign on the side of it. This was used by the Cobb & Co South Queensland Transport company until quite recently.
Glenlyon Dam
To the east of Texas are Glenlyon Dam with its tourist park and its facilities for camping, fishing, sailboarding and canoeing (for more information contact (02) 6737 5266 and Sundown National Park, 14 000 hectares of 'primitive' countryside which is administered by the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service.
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