The Buffalo Gap Historic Village is a small open-air museum of about twenty preserved or relocated frontier buildings on a single grass site at the edge of town — a doctor's office, a one-room schoolhouse, a railroad section foreman's house, a blacksmith shop, a chapel, and the original Taylor County Courthouse and Jail from 1879. The collection grew out of the Wilson family's salvage of disappearing rural Texas buildings starting in the 1950s and is now operated by McMurry University.
Self-guided tours take about ninety minutes; staff members are sometimes in period costume and happy to talk through the history. It is the kind of small American museum that easily exceeds expectations — well-curated, well-maintained, and almost free of the rhinestone-cowboy quality of larger Texas tourist attractions.