Watkins Construction Co taxidermy museum in United States


Watkins Construction Co taxidermy museum


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OwnerCarmack Watkins
Address 3229 S 15th St
Zip-code TX 75110
Place Corsicana
Country United States
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Watkins Construction Co taxidermy museum, located at 3229 S 15th St, in Corsicana, United States .

Taxidermy specimens

Watkins Construction Co taxidermy museum has in its collection 1 elephantine museum specimens with records in this database:

(Measurements of teeth and body parts follow the system described by Maglio (1973; P = plate number, L = length, W = width, H = height, LF = lamellar frequency)


    Black Diamond Accession nr: . Received: 1990-00-00 ♂ Black Diamond
    Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
    * Born 1897 at Asia unspecified location † Dead 1929-10-16 at Al G. Barnes Circus
    Death: shot Death reason: execution by gunshot
    †† Buried 1929-10-16

Comments / picturesThe pride of Carmack Watkins' collection is the head, actually both heads of Black Diamond, the most famous killer elephant in Texas history.

Black Diamond was a pachyderm with a temper. Weighing almost six tons, reportedly the tallest elephant in captivity, he was also reportedly a killer, with three human corpses to his credit, when he went insane in the Al Barnes Circus parade in Corsicana on October 12, 1929. The reason behind his murderous rampage is obscure, but the most colorful account has it that Black Diamond was passionately jealous, and that when he saw his trainer, H.D. "Curley" Pritchett, talking with a woman, he went berserk and killed her.


Carmack Watkins had seen the killing of Eva Donohoo in Corsicana as a boy. (She had been an editor at "The Houston Post" before she retired and moved to the Corsicana area were she had hired Prickett to work for her. I have often wondered if her ties to the Houston newspaper had anything to do with what John Ringling did with Black Diamond).

Watkins later got Navarro College to help have the Skull moved to his personal museum back in Corsicana. ( thinking this was in the mid 90's). Watkins has been in oil & gas and had built the "Watkins Wildlife Trophy Room" which is located in the main building of the Watkins Construction Company.

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Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2024). Watkins Construction Co taxidermy museum, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3195. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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