El Campo's beginning is depicted on the wall of the El Campo's Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture. El Campo was once a bald prairie. A railroad track was built with a switching station, called the Prairie Switch. Cowboys brought cattle in and bedded them down until the morning they would ship them to market. Around the camp fire at night they looked across the prairie to see the glow from the lantern at Prairie Switch, and it looked like a "pearl on the prairie". This is the artists rendition of that legend.

Sponsor: El Campo Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture.   
Artist: El Campo Art Association 1994.