Teepee City
N 34° 00.428 W 100° 38.438
14S E 348495 N 3764160
The 1936 granite historic marker about Tee Pee City in a rest stop on the US 70/62 -- right next to a black plate historic marker about . . . Tee Pee City
Waymark Code: WMKF36
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2014
Views: 10
The second of two historic markers at this rest area east of Matador about Tee Pee City, this marker is made of stone and was erected in 1936.
Marker Number: 12939
Marker Text:
Camp of early buffalo hunters. Only settlement west of Henrietta, north of Fort Griffin and south of Fort Elliott (now Mobeetie) 1875-1880.
Headquarters of Texas Rangers under Captain G.W. Arrington at intervals, 1879-1881. Abandoned about 1886.
First white child born in Motley county was Nora Cooper born here in 1882. S.N. Armstrong, pioneer merchant, buried near this site.
Erected by the State of Texas
1936
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