Historical Marker

Tee Pee City

Historical marker location:
US 62/70, Matador, Texas
( roadside park, 10 mi. E of Matador and E of CR 247)
Marker installed: 1936

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.