001250 Texas Tto Create Cattle Monument

Fort Worth, TX - Developers want to build a 485-foot-long set of horns towering 15 stories above a highway to commemorate Texas livestock drives.

Visitors to the proposed $80 million Great Texas Trails monument and museum could create their own cattle brands at a computer kiosk and take a film trip through Texas history.

“It's a walk back into time,” said Greg Smith, a Nebraska developer and member of J. Greg Smith Inc., the group proposing the project. “It allows visitors the opportunity to revisit the Texas trails.”

The monument would span Interstate 35 in Hillsboro, about 45 miles south of Fort Worth. It would mark a cattle route that once fed into the Chisholm Trail, which ran between Texas and Kansas in the mid- to late-1800s.

J. Greg Smith Inc. helped build another monument to cattle drives in Kearney, Neb. The group hopes to finance the project through sale of bonds.

On Tuesday, the group asked the Hillsboro City Council to authorize a feasibility study. It will request permission from the state Transportation Department to build the structure over the highway.

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