Historical Marker
Old Buffalo Road
Historical marker location:
Archer City, Texas
( from Archer City, take US Highway 79 northeast about 15 miles.)
Marker installed: 1973
Named for traffic in buffalo hides and bones, road from plains hunting grounds crossed this site. Hunters hauled thousands of hides to market in 1870s. The first settlers in late 1870s-80s sold bones for fertilizer and bought supplies to sustain life during hard times.
Erected by Archer County Historical Survey Committee, 1973.