The A. W. & Mary Blankenship Cowchip House -- Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock TX
N 33° 35.355 W 101° 52.960
14S E 232473 N 3720339
The Blankenship Cowchip House, donated to the Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock TX by Doyle Thornhill in memory of her parents
Waymark Code: WMV4EJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2017
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There is no snark at all intended in this donation of a unique and vital structure to the ranching Heritage Center. It's not crappy commentary at all (mandatory pun).
Rather, this donation preserves a utilitarian and widely-used structure of the sort that usually get torn down and discarded, given their purpose.
Cowchips were valuable commodities on plains ranches, where they could be used for fuel and fertilizer.
This humble cowchip house was gifted to the National Ranching Heritage center in 1986. The plaque reads as follows:
"THE BLANKENSHIP LAZY IA COWCHIP HOUSE
(circa) 1907
Donated by Doyle Thornhill in memory of her parents
A. W. & MARY BLANKENSHIP
1986"
Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link]
Location: Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock TX
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