Historical Marker

Wyatt-Boyd Ranch Complex

Historical marker location:
Stephenville vicinity, Texas
( from Stephenville, take US 281 south about 5.5 miles)
Marker installed: 1987

This is a rare example of a virtually complete 19th-century Cross Timbers farmstead. Thought to have been built in the early 1870s by James J. Wyatt, the Cumberland plan one-story rough limestone two room ranch house was altered in the 1890s by J. H. Boyd and modified in the 1930s and 1940s. Other structures in the ranch complex include a single-room masonry dugout, two stone barns, and a rock base for an elevated cistern.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1987

Incising on base: In honor of Naoma Caudle Frey Hickie, 1987.