Built in 1923 at a cost of $4,500, the smokestack is located on the northeast corner of the campus. Legend has it that a student from NTAC flew over the campus and threw a brick inside the stack. The smokestack is no longer in use, but remains a Tarleton landmark. The smokestack was restored in 1998 with "Tarleton" painted down the side.
A campus legend proclaims that an invader from North Texas Agricultural College (NTAC) flew an airplane over the smokestack and dropped a brick down the shaft. Thus far, investigators have yet to probe the depths of the pipe in search of this foreign object.