Site of John and Maggie Weatherly Half Dugout
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 35° 39.378 W 101° 24.436
14S E 282080 N 3948497
Stone prairie low slung house, but not exactly a dug-out.
Waymark Code: WMA4X1
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/17/2010
Views: 11
Marker Erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Date Marker Erected: 1978
Location of Marker: 1303 W. Roosevelt St., west campus, next to stone building behind chain-link fence, Frank Phillips Junior College, Borger
If you visit this site I wish you more luck and a better repore with the security and employees of this junior college. I could not get permission to ge inside the fence, and therefore no close up, nor additional photos.
Marker Number: 4818
Marker Text:
(1 mile west)
This structure is a copy of a half-dugout erected in 1898 near this location by John (1865-1944) and Maggie Weatherly (1875-1968). The High Plains offered no native stone or timber for building materials. Instead, settlers lived in dugouts, built into the thick sod. Well-insulated, the dugouts were cool in summer and warm in winter. When building supplies became available, more elegant homes were erected. The Weatherlys were pioneer ranchers and civic leaders. Borger was founded on their original homestead after oil was discovered here.
(1978)
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