CARBON-IZER PRESENTS MARKET STREET IN HEARNE

Formerly known as "Highway 6 in Hearne & Calvert" (prior to Version 6.0), this page covers North Market Street and South Market Street in Hearne, Texas, as well as continuing south to Brazos County (which appears to continue on the numbering).

Version 6.0 (10/1/2026) is as follows...

Added: O'Reilly Auto Parts, Tractor Supply Company, VFW Post 10358, Jentsch Motors, 125 N. Market Street, Top Donuts, 1005 South Market Street, Jimmie's Deals, Randy's Muffler Shop, and Lost Creek Store
Updated: Integrity Urgent Care (previously titled as "1643 N. Market Street"), 7-Eleven (previously titled as "1637 North Market Street"), 871-879 N. Market Street (previously titled as "Stoney's Liquor"), CEFCO, 410 South Market Street (previously titled as "Flo-Mart Express"), McDonald's, and Allen Samuels Chevrolet GMC
Removed: 304 Main Street (Calvert), DQ (Calvert), Mike's Country Store (Calvert), 518 Main Street (Calvert), Texaco (Calvert), Family Dollar (Calvert), Hearne Railroad Museum Depot, Chicken Express, Kristen Distributing Company, and FedEx Ground

Valero and KOA Kampgrounds also got minor edits.

Ama's Mexican Restaurant / 1647 North Market Street
The Market Street name starts around here (Hearne's name for Highway 6). This was opened in 2009 as a new-build, replacing a building closer to the main core of Hearne.

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites / 1645 North Market Street
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites - Hearne opened in October 2008. The three-story, 64-room hotel is perhaps the first hotel proper in Hearne.

Integrity Urgent Care / 1643 North Market Street
This opened as St. Joseph Express (walk-in clinic) circa 2012 and later became CHI St. Joseph Health Primary Care by the late 2010s. By 2021 it gained some sort of association with Texas A&M University and soon moved out to 709 Barton Street as "HealthPoint". By mid-2025, it was retenanted with its current tenant (the Hearne location)

7-Eleven / 1637 North Market Street
For years, this was the home of Zeig Sheet Metal Works Inc. (from the 1960s to around the early 2000s). The sign remained up until the early 2010s when it was leased to Sanders, a fertilizer supplier, but by 2020 it was empty, with only a sign advertising Marlin's "High Cotton Icehouse", which closed a few years earlier. In 2021 the warehouse began to be torn down, with a 7-Eleven beginning construction not too long after (opening 2023 from what I can tell) with some diesel pumps for trucks and both Laredo Taco Company and Raise the Roost inside.

It should also be noted that back in the mid-2010s, Hearne had a TETCO convenience store at 800 West Brown Street that was sold to a different operator rather than converting it to a 7-Eleven.

Love's Travel Stop / 1423 N. Market Street
Opened in early 2011 (with FM 485 changing from a stop sign and two long yield lanes to an ordinary stoplight), Love's Travel Stop #375 features a McDonald's restaurant inside (giving Hearne two McDonald's stores, not just one). It appears to have replaced two older motels. My previous research has shown that it was the "Executive Inn" and the "Brazos Valley Inn".

Budgetel Inn & Suites / 1259 N. Market Street
Two-story motel opened around 2009.

Valero / 1255 N. Market St.
Home to the "Stop N Save" food mart. In the late 2000s this didn't have a gas branding and had a brown facade with red, yellow, and orange striping--very '70s. I thought the station had been demolished but it was just renovated and updated around the time Budgetel Inn was built around it.

O'Reilly Auto Parts / 1097 N. Market Street
This O'Reilly Auto Parts location opened in 2021.

1051 North Market Street
This address holds both Penny's Diner, a classic, chrome-styled diner restaurant, and a motel. For years, the motel was the one-off Oak Tree Inn, but toward the late 2010s converted to a Baymont Inn.

Tractor Supply Company / 925 North Market Street
This Tractor Supply Company location opened mid-2016.

871-879 N. Market Street
These are both part of the same strip center. 871 is composed of two storefronts, Hearne Pharmacy (opened 2026 and replaced a storefront that briefly had Smokin' Gun Firearms (2015-2017?) and Scrub-Tub Laundromat. My notes from Wikimapia say that "it was not open in October 2014 but open in April 2015", while Stoney's Liquor at 879 opened around 2011.

Sonic Drive-In / 207 North Market Street
As traffic often slowed down around the railroad crossing, I remember better remembering this intersection, and before Sonic Drive-In moved here in 2002 (relocated from 801 Brown Street), the Magnolia street sign was this old-fashioned, almost ornate style sign that I've never seen anything like it. Definitely part of one of my memories of going up to Waco.

VFW Post 10358 / 205 North Market Street
This has been here since the mid-2010s, in the late 2000s and early 2010s it was Toodie's Bar B Que and was an automobile garage/retail store operation prior to this.

Jentsch Motors / 204 North Market Street
Jentsch Motors (Jentsch Motor Company) has been around for decades but at some point in the mid-2010s started to pivot to off-road vehicles.

Laundromat Depot / 201 N. Market Street
In the early 2010s (or very late 2000s) this reopened as a laundromat, tearing down a metal building addition to the south. Originally, "Laundromat-Lavaánderia", the current name was assumed around 2021 with a repaint of the building from tan to blue (the previous laundromat repainted it tan from red, white, and blue).

The railroad crossing at East 6th Street was closed in 2013.

125 North Market Street
This was Shell with a "Food Mart" in 2008 then became Apex Food Mart (hand-painted, but in Shell colors) by 2011. After that it debranded and became Papa's Country Store which closed in 2015. It reopened again in 2017 but closed in 2017 and closed since. Tax records indicate it was a Citgo at some point in the 1990s.

CEFCO / 100 N. Market Street
This CEFCO was previously an Exxon but converted to the CEFCO brand name by 2021 (it was still an Exxon as of 2018, which by that time the Waco stores had switched to self-branding). It has a Subway inside and has been CEFCO since 2003. Previous name of convenience store was "Big Gas" at least back to 1996. It is the last CEFCO seen on Highway 6 heading south, as Brazos County and by extent the entire Houston area lack the stores. CEFCO #51 is the number.

In my recent travels as of July 2026 the CEFCO stores along Highway 14 have been repainted red on the trim for their Casey's conversions but no such repaint has been done for the Hearne store.

Valero / 102 S. Market Street
Previously a Chevron (prior to around the mid-2010s), this was originally a garage-based gas station at one time. The Valero sits on one of the four blocks that make up downtown Hearne, with the intersection being at Magnolia and 4th Street.

Top Donuts / 402 South Market Street
Daylight Donuts from 1987 to 2002 and Top Donuts since. I can't find what it might've been prior (if anything).

410 South Market Street

Flo-Mart Express, also known as Flo Market, was a former Shell (Texaco before around 2003) featured a convenience store that was originally a garage of some sort (with the abandoned office to the right of the store). As of mid-2025 it was closed.

Fatty's Smoke Shop / 507 S. Market Street
Fatty's Smoke Shop (out of Bryan) opened in 2023. The building, a former gas station and garage has not functioned as a gas station in many years. In the early to mid-2010s it was painted teal and was "El Panadero Taqueria y Panaderia" (also known as "Taqueria y Panaderia Panadero") and briefly (2021) "Speed's Auto Sale".

Amigos y Familia Mexican Restaurant / 702 S. Market Street
This restaurant opened in 2011. It used to be Ama's Mexican Restaurant from 2001 to 2009, which later moved near the new Holiday Inn Express (see above). Before Ama's, it was Texas Burger of Hearne (unknown if related to the Madisonville Texas Burger/TX Burger) from 1997 to 2000 and Calahan Fried Chicken from 1995 to 1996. (That's all what can be found at the moment).

Johnny Reb's Dixie Cafe / 708 S. Market Street
The Confederate flag logo disappeared around 2015 but this diner has been here in this location since the late 1980s.

McDonald's / 906 S. Market Street
Hearne's first McDonald's restaurant built in 2000 (with some renovations since). It closes at 11pm (unlike the Love's location, which closes later and was formerly open 24H).

Pizza Hut / 1002 S. Market Street
Small towns like Hearne can only really support one pizza place, for Hearne, it's Pizza Hut (no Domino's). This was been here since 1986 (replacing a short-lived location at 907 Brown).

1005 South Market Street
In the early 2010s this converted house was the home of Crossroads Companion Animal Hospital but as of 2025 they have moved to 607 West Brown Street. The main Google entry has this as its main photo.

The Gift Shoppe + Flowers / 1108 S. Market Street
The only records currently available are that this floral shop has been here since at least 1996.

SouthStar Bank / 1308 South Market Street
SouthStar Bank built their Hearne branch in the late 2000s (between 2005 and 2009).

Jimmie's Deals / 1602 South Market Street
This used car and truck dealer has been here since 2001; in the 1990s it was home to Four Seasons Garden Center.

Randy's Muffler Shop / 1604 South Market Street
This business has been operational since 1993.

Lost Creek Store / 1656 S. Market Street
Truck stop, a Pilot dealer but with Shell consumer gas. It opened around 2024 and has no branded foodservice operation except a licensed Starbucks kiosk (not a true Starbucks).

Allen Samuels Chevrolet GMC / 4556 Highway 6
This smaller car dealership was built in 2005 as Derek Scott Chevrolet (also known as Derek Scott's Auto Park, featuring Chevrolet/Buick/GMC). Allen Samuels (assumed the name sometime in the early 2010s) also does Buick as well.

Abco Auto Parts / 5752 Texas State Highway 6
From 2003 to 2007 this was Horseshoe Club, then Gem's Gentlemen's Club (one of the area's only topless bars) from 2007 until a fire in November 2008 (which was later ruled to be arson). Abco Auto Parts opened in this location in 2010, building its two main buildings on the foundation of Horseshoe/Gem's.

T&S RV & Sport / 10212 Texas State Highway 6
This was Country RV Center from 1993 to around 2010/2011. As the economy started to come back to life, it reopened under a new name and ownership--RV Source. It took a few years for RV Source to use all of Country's space, though. In mid-2021, RV Source was bought and rebranded as T&S RV & Sport.

Valero / 10915 S. State Hwy. 6
In late 2012/early 2013 this gas station did a major renovation with a new Valero brand ("Discount Fleet" store) and a new facade on the store. It appears the name of the store ("Lake Side Grocery") has been on the store in some form even before the revamp. (Before the Valero, as of 2007, it had no brand but the pumps were from Summit). More on this will be coming in a future update.

KOA Kampgrounds / 12942 Highway 6
The "Bryan / North College Station KOA Holiday" opened in June 2023.

Shell / 13244 N. Hwy 6
This Shell ("Hwy 6IX Travel Center") has two in-store concepts (Big Madre Tacos and Champs Chicken) while it has space for a full adjacent restaurant. It was built in 2020, with truck stop facilities (showers, laundry).

Texas Equine Hospital / 13688 Texas 6
This horse veterinarian was completed in 2009 and is one of the last of the Hearne-area address series before renumbering resets at OSR going north from the College Station border.

Around FM 2818, it becomes Earl Rudder Freeway.

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