Marker Inscription
Commerce, Transportation, Architecture
Historic Place
Grimes Garage
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About this site
Grimes Garage is a historic place in Hillsboro, Hill County, dedicated in 1984. It is one of 12 historic places documented in Hill County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 199 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.0124, -97.1298 near Hillsboro. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hill County Jail (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Gebhardt Bakery, Tarlton Building, and James L. Harris.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2084001875. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Auto mechanic Fred O. Grimes, a promoter of paved Texas highways, built this garage at 110 North Waco Street in 1914 after an earlier 1906 venture failed for lack of automobiles in the county. Equipped with fourteen gas pumps, a repair shop, and a tire store, it was nicknamed 'the most famous garage in the world' and later became the Texas Through Time fossil museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgsah-archipedia.org
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