First Tree Texas High Plains
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 35° 18.636 W 101° 27.691
14S E 276211 N 3910267
That little Bois d'Arc that Thomas Cree worked so hard to make grow.
Waymark Code: WM7C8W
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member clayj
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Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee.
Date Marker Erected: 1963.
County of Marker: Carson County.
Location of Marker: US-60, 4½ miles SW of Panhandle.
Pay close attention, if you are coming from the east you cannot see this site It is on the south side of the east bound lanes in a depressed area. There is ample parking, and a good roadside turnout, so driving right up to it is fine. East bound traffic can see the site just fine.

This is one of three markers from different time, all attached together because they all deal with this little tree.

The other two are here: WM7C92 and here: WM7C96

Marker Number: 1878

Marker Text:
First tree on the Texas High Plains, set in front of dugout home by Thomas Cree, 1888.

Good luck symbols of settlers throughout drought, blizzard and heat.

Supplemental Plate:
Cree's Bois d'Arc tree died in the 1970s. County residents planted a new tree here in 1990 as a memorial to the area's early pioneers.
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