FIRST - Water Well - Panhandle, TX
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 35° 20.748 W 101° 22.795
14S E 283725 N 3913991
The Square House Museum, has windmills, caboose, ranch house, and much much more....Saved the plains, both panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma. Farmers there would not have survived without this windmill.
Waymark Code: WM1372M
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2020
Views: 2
County of Marker: Carson County
Location of marker: 5th St. & Elsie St., Square House Museum, Panhandle
Marker Erected By: Square House Museum
Marker Text:
ECLIPSE WINDMILL PATENTED 1867
George Tyng, White Deer Lands,
drilled first water well 1887 near present townsite White Deer after unsuccessful attempt in 1886 by Col. B.B. Groom, Francklyn Land & Cattle Company.
Windmill indispensable factor in settlement plains of Texas. Eclipse Mill slow running, direct stroke, no gears, used for over 40 years.
Windmill restored - ranchers Jim Williams, Williams Surratt Tower - Skaggs Estate, Frank Sparks, Magic Circle Drilling Company.
Another site and pictures of the windmill here: Eclipse Windmills
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