White Deer
Inscription
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.
Location
Sources
More markers in Carson
6666 Dixon Creek Ranch
Panhandle, TX
Takes name from creek where noted buffalo hunter and scout Billy Dixon established first dugout home on High Plains, 1874.
Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City
Panhandle, TX
Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region-- Lue Finch, W. H. Lord, O. H. Nelson-- in 1887 promoted Panhandle City, as...
Oldest Bank in the Texas Panhandle
Panhandle, TX
Second commercial bank opened in the Panhandle of Texas.
Panhandle
Panhandle, TX
In 1880s, capital of Panhandle area.
The Square House
Panhandle, TX
The Niedringhaus brothers of St. Louis sent lumber by ox-cart from Dodge City and built this square house on their "N Bar N" Ranch here...