FIRST - Water Well in County - White Deer, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 26.071 W 101° 10.367
14S E 302768 N 3923399
Tower in the middle of Main St. and 3rd Ave., downtown White Deer.
Waymark Code: WM138PX
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/13/2020
Views: 3
County of Marker: Carson County
Location of Marker: Intersection 3rd Ave. & Main St., White Deer
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee
Date Marker Erected: 1966
Marker Text:
WHITE DEER
Name taken from nearby creek, so called by an Indian legend of White Deer feeding there.
Site of county's first water well, drilled at N Bar N Ranch, 1887. Also headquarters for White Deer Land Co. (formerly Francklyn Land and Cattle Co., a British syndicate with 630,000 acres of Panhandle land), which in 1902 sold its acreage for small farms and ranches.
Located .5 mile east on railroad in 1906, it became supply town for settlers. Present townsite founded in 1908. Oil boom came in 1920s. Is shipping point for grain and cattle.
(1966)
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