Picket and Sotol House -- Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock TX
N 33° 35.361 W 101° 53.066
14S E 232309 N 3720355
A Picket and Sotol House on display at the Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock TX
Waymark Code: WMV5Q2
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2017
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An interesting Picket and Sotol house is on display at the Ranching Heritage Center, on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock TX. Wood was scare oin the Plains, so you used what you had!
An interpretive sign nearby reads as follows:
“PICKET AND SOTOL HOUSE
1904, 1905
Far West Texas offered little is building material. So early homesteaders used the yucca like a Sotol plant - tall woody stocks that grew from the center of the desert plants. Two rooms of the house were built with a framework of cedar posts and Sotol stalks nailed horizontally to the posts on the inside and out, forming double walls. Soil and small rocks were poured between the walls as filler and insulation. The roof was thatched with bundles of sacahuista grass. The second inhabitant added the third room of upright cedar pickets with the fieldstone fireplace."
Group that erected the marker: Ranching Heritage Center
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
3121 4th St
Lubbock, TX
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