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Texas is the land where everything is bigger and better. But Texas
has
some pretty neat small stuff too. Here is a small sampling.
What is the nation's longest, skinniest state park?
Texas State Railroad
(over 25 miles long and the width of the railway right-of-way wide)
What is
Texas' smallest state park?
Acton State Park (It's about the size of a two-car garage.) near Granbury.
Gravesite of Elizabeth Crockett,
Davy Crockett's second wife.
What is the shortest river in Texas?
Comal River
(It's only about 2.5 miles long.)
What small stuff might you see at Monahans
Sandhills State Park?
A
forest of mature Harvard oak trees no taller than three feet high
The Monastery of St. Claire near Brenham is famous
for what?
Breeding miniature horses
Where could you see the world's largest collection of beer bottles?
Wurstfest
in New Braunfels
The second largest rock in the nation
can be found where?
Enchanted Rock (okay, with an exposed surface area of 130 square miles, this rock ain't so small.)
Where is the "richest little town in the world?"
Niles City (one time neighbor of Fort Worth including such businesses
as a petroleum refinery, meat-packing plants, a cottonseed oil company, grain elevators, and the Fort Worth Stockyards).
Where
is the "world's littlest skyscraper?"
701 LaSalle, Wichita Falls; planned in the early 20th century to be one hundred
and twenty feet tall, it was built in inches instead of feet and bilked investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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