Southwest Dairy Museum Buttercup

Sulphur Springs, Texas, United States

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Buttercup, a Holstein, and Creampuff, a Jersey, are two 15-foot cow statues at the entrance to the Southwest Dairy Museum, 1210 Houston Street, Sulphur Springs, Texas. The museum's administrator says Buttercup was donated in 1995 and Creampuff in 1997.

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Two giant cows stand at the entrance to the Southwest Dairy Museum in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Buttercup is a Holstein and Creampuff a Jersey, and the museum's director of administration told the Sulphur Springs News-Telegram in 2021 that each stands 15 feet tall.

According to the same report, the Hinton family donated Buttercup in 1995 and the Texas Jersey Cattle Club donated Creampuff in 1997. A contractor from Mount Vernon repainted both in August 2021; they had last been painted in the summer of 2009, and, according to the museum, they are repainted as needed. "The cows symbolize the hard-working dairy farmers that the museum is proud to represent," the administrator said. The Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce calls them "the lovable bovine mascots of the Southwest Dairy Museum" and suggests a photograph with them.

The museum's own website describes a 10,000-square-foot, dairy-farm style building with a five-story silo, a series of historical scenes of farm life before electricity reached rural America, and scheduled guided tours led by docents. KLTV's East Texas Weekend, in February 2026, mentioned a milking-cow exhibit, a cheese press it dates to the 1850s and a historic milk delivery wagon, and said two giant cow statues stand at the front.

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Two giant cow statues stand at the front of the Southwest Dairy Museum, according to KLTV's East Texas Weekend in February 2026. The Texas Historical Commission listing, updated in 2021, gave museum hours of Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm.

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At the Southwest Dairy Museum, 1210 Houston Street, Sulphur Springs, Texas. The statues are at the museum entrance; museum hours are weekdays per a 2021 state listing.

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