COLEMAN

Population 5,344

Altitude 1,710

General

Founded in 1876 on Hords Creek, area of rolling, grassy plains and wide bottom lands. A typical frontier settlement, first store hardly completed before a cemetery was laid out for loser in cowboy gunfight. Today seat of Coleman County. Area still devoted to large scale ranching; additional income from oil, natural gas, limestone, and high-grade glass sand from Santa Anna Mountain eight miles southeast.

Coleman lies on U.S. 84, a segment of the Ports to Plains Highway connecting the state's heartland to coastal ports.

Attractions

• COLEMAN CITY PARK - Includes museum, and pioneer blacksmith shop, picnic and playground areas amid shady trees along Hords Creek at U.S. 283 north.
• COLEMAN COUNTY MUSEUM - Pioneer clothes, dishes, farm equipment, documents, saddles, barbed wire, and larger-than-life horse statue; brought to Coleman in 1884 to display saddles. Open June - August Friday - Wednesday'; April, May, September, Sat., Sun. afternoons. In replica of Camp Colorado, City Park Complex.
• WARBIRD MUSEUM - Flying museum features vintage W.W.II and Korean War planes; restored and flown by members of the museum. Inventory changes periodically. Open Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Coleman Municipal Airport. Take U.S. 84 north to F.M. 206, NE to airport.

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